Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

11.

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

Epicurus

12.

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

Bright, Grant M.

13.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

16.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

17.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

18.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

19.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Cocteau, Jean

24.

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

Stephanie Klein

25.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

27.

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

28.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

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

Charles II

30.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

31.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Publilius Syrus

33.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

34.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Dryden, John

36.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

37.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

40.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

41.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

43.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

44.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

45.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

46.

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

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

48.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

49.

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

Becht, Ben

50.

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