Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

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

Epicurus

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Bible

11.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

12.

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

Stephanie Klein

13.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Frost, Robert

17.

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

Craig Volk

18.

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

Picabia, Francis

19.

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

20.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Gide, Andre

24.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

25.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

26.

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

Mann, Thomas

27.

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

28.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

29.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

30.

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

Byron, Lord

31.

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

Allen, Woody

32.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

33.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

34.

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

35.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

36.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

39.

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

Edith Sitwell

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Butler, Samuel

43.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Euripides

48.

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

Dryden, John

49.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

50.

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.