Motivational Quotes

Death

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Beaumont, Francis

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Epicurus

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

10.

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

11.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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.

14.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

16.

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

Stephanie Klein

17.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

18.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

19.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

20.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

21.

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

22.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

23.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Mitford, William

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Allen, Woody

29.

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

Publilius Syrus

30.

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

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

32.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

33.

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.

34.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

35.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

36.

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

37.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

38.

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

Randy K. Milholland

39.

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

Sophocles

40.

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

Bayly, Joseph

41.

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

42.

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

43.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

45.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

46.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

48.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

49.

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

Hermes, Georg

50.

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

Horace