Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Death

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Horace

10.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Mann, Thomas

14.

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

15.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

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

Carson, Johnny

17.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

19.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

20.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

21.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

23.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

24.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

25.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

26.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

27.

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

28.

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

Bagnold, Enid

29.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

30.

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

31.

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

Horace

32.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

33.

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

Mitford, William

34.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

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

Darrow, Clarence

36.

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

Keats, John

37.

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

38.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Canetti, Elias

40.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

41.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

42.

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

43.

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

44.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

45.

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

46.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

47.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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.

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

Woody Allen

50.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri