Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

10.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

11.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

12.

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

13.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

15.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

16.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

17.

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

Plato

18.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

20.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

21.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

22.

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

Mitford, William

23.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

25.

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

26.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

27.

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

28.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

Oscar Wilde

31.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

32.

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

Hermes, Georg

33.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

34.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

35.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

36.

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

37.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

38.

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

39.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

40.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

41.

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

42.

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

Publilius Syrus

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

44.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

45.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

47.

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

Allen, Woody

48.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

49.

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.

50.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John