Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Heidegger, Martin

Best Quotes about Death

1.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

2.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

3.

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

Hoffer, Eric

4.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

5.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

6.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

7.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

8.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

9.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

10.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

13.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

15.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

16.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

17.

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

Plato

18.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

19.

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

Horace

20.

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

21.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

22.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

23.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

24.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

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

Frida Kahlo

26.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

27.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

28.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

29.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

30.

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

Stephanie Klein

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Bagnold, Enid

33.

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

Donne, John

34.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

35.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

36.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

39.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

40.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

'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

43.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

44.

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

45.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

46.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

47.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

48.

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

49.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

50.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles