Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Aaron McGruder

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

Butler, Samuel

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

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

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Eliot, George

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

13.

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

Dryden, John

14.

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

Fielding, Henry

15.

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

Epicurus

16.

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

Donne, John

17.

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

Frida Kahlo

18.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

19.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

George Burns

23.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

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

Stephanie Klein

25.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

26.

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

Plato

27.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

30.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

31.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

32.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

37.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

41.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

42.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

43.

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

Publilius Syrus

44.

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

John Scalzi

45.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

46.

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

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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

48.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

49.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

50.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene