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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Luther, Martin

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

John Scalzi

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

10.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

13.

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

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

15.

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.

16.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

17.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

18.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

19.

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

20.

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

Hubbard, Kin

21.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

22.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

24.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

25.

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

26.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

27.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

28.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

30.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

31.

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

Aaron McGruder

32.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

34.

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

Bible

35.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

36.

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

Foster, John W.

37.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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

39.

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

Charles II

40.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

41.

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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

44.

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

45.

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

Woody Allen

46.

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

Bryant, William C.

47.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

48.

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

Picabia, Francis

49.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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