Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Death

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Epictetus

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

Hermes, Georg

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Camus, Albert

17.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

18.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

19.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

22.

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

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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

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

25.

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

Oscar Wilde

26.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

27.

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

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

Publilius Syrus

33.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

34.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

35.

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

Bible

36.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

38.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

39.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

41.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

44.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

45.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

46.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.