Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Stephanie Klein

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Oscar Wilde

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Pamela Ribon

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

10.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

11.

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

12.

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

Woody Allen

13.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

14.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

16.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Frida Kahlo

18.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

19.

'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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Epicurus

23.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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

25.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

27.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

28.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

29.

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

Hermes, Georg

30.

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

31.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

33.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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

35.

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

Macdonald, George

36.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

37.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

38.

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

George Burns

39.

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

40.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

41.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

42.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

43.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

45.

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

46.

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

Camus, Albert

47.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

48.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

49.

To stop sinning suddenly.