Motivational Quotes

Death

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

- Heidegger, Martin

Best Quotes about Death

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Miller, Joaquin

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

14.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

15.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

16.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

17.

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

18.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

19.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

20.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

21.

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

22.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

23.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

24.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

26.

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

27.

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

Hermes, Georg

28.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

29.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

30.

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

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

32.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

34.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

35.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

37.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

38.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

39.

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.

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Keats, John

42.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

43.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

44.

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

45.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

46.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

47.

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

48.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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

50.

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