Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Death

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

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

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

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

Young, Edward

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

11.

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

Horace

12.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Dryden, John

14.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

15.

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

16.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

17.

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

Picabia, Francis

18.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

19.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

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

John Scalzi

21.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

23.

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

24.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

25.

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

26.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

27.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

28.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

29.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

31.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

32.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

33.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

34.

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

Cocteau, Jean

35.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

36.

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

Randy K. Milholland

37.

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

Mitford, William

38.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

40.

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

41.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

42.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

45.

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

46.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

47.

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

Allen, Woody

48.

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

Berra, Yogi

49.

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.