Motivational Quotes

Death

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Death

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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.

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.

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Horace

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

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

10.

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

Lowell, James Russell

11.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

17.

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

Mitford, William

18.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

19.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

Keats, John

21.

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

Auden, W. H.

22.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

23.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

24.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

25.

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

Woody Allen

26.

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

27.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

28.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

29.

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

Bright, Grant M.

30.

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

Cocteau, Jean

31.

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

Dryden, John

32.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

33.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

34.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

36.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

37.

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

Eliot, George

38.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

39.

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

David Assael

40.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

41.

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

Hoffer, Eric

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

Allen, Woody

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