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

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

Epictetus

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

Donne, John

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Butler, Samuel

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

10.

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

Edith Sitwell

11.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

12.

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

Keats, John

13.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

17.

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.

18.

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

Dryden, John

19.

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

Duffecy, James

20.

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

Cocteau, Jean

21.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

22.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

23.

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

24.

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

Carson, Johnny

25.

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

Mitford, William

26.

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

27.

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

Horace

28.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

29.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

33.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

34.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

35.

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

36.

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

Plato

37.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

38.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

39.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

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

Macdonald, George

43.

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

44.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

45.

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

46.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

47.

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

48.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

50.

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