Motivational Quotes

Death

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

- Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Death

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

10.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

11.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

12.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

13.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

14.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

15.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

Auden, W. H.

17.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

19.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

20.

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

Plato

21.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

23.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

24.

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

Beaumont, Francis

25.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

26.

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

27.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

28.

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

Donne, John

29.

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

Bayly, Joseph

30.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

31.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

32.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

33.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

34.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

35.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

36.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

37.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

38.

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

Darrow, Clarence

39.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

40.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

41.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

42.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

43.

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

Camus, Albert

44.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

45.

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

Frida Kahlo

46.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

47.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

48.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

49.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

50.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud