Motivational Quotes

Death

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

- Gurdjieff, George

Best Quotes about Death

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

10.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

11.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

12.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

13.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

14.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

15.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

16.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

17.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

18.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

19.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

21.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

22.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

23.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

25.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

26.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

27.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

28.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

29.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

30.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

31.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

32.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

33.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

34.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

35.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

36.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

37.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

38.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

39.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

40.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

41.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

42.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

44.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

45.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

46.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

48.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

49.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.