Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Craig Volk

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bryant, William C.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

11.

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

12.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

13.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

15.

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

Woody Allen

16.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

17.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

18.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

19.

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

Bible

20.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

21.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

22.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

23.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

24.

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

25.

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

26.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

27.

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

28.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

29.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

30.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

31.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

32.

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

Woody Allen

33.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

34.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

35.

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

36.

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

37.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

38.

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

39.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

41.

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

Dryden, John

42.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

43.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

48.

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

Stephanie Klein

49.

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

Beaumont, Francis

50.

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