Motivational Quotes

Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Edith Sitwell

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

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

Beaumont, Francis

10.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

11.

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

Plato

12.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

13.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

14.

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

15.

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

Dickinson, Emily

16.

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

Butler, Samuel

17.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

18.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

19.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

24.

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

25.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

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

Publilius Syrus

28.

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

Aaron McGruder

29.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

30.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

31.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

32.

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

Gide, Andre

33.

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

Oscar Wilde

34.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

35.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

37.

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

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

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

40.

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

Publilius Syrus

41.

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

Woody Allen

42.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

43.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

44.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

45.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

46.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

47.

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

Frost, Robert

48.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

49.

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

50.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry