Motivational Quotes

Death

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Oscar Wilde

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

10.

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

11.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

12.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

13.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

14.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

15.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

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

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

19.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

20.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

21.

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

22.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

23.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

24.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

26.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

27.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

28.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

29.

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

Chandler, Raymond

30.

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

31.

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

David Assael

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

34.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

Charles II

36.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

37.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

40.

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

Epicurus

41.

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

42.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

43.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

44.

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

Carson, Johnny

45.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

46.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

47.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

48.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

49.

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

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

Young, Edward