Motivational Quotes

Death

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

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

Duffecy, James

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Byron, Lord

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Frost, Robert

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

Butler, Samuel

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

10.

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

11.

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

Berra, Yogi

12.

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

Euripides

13.

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

14.

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

Palmerston, Lord

15.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

16.

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

17.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

18.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

19.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

20.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

21.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

22.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

23.

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

24.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

25.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

26.

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

27.

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

Fielding, Henry

28.

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

Auden, W. H.

29.

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

Gide, Andre

30.

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

31.

'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

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

34.

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

35.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

36.

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

Darrow, Clarence

37.

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

38.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

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

41.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

42.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

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

44.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

45.

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

Sophocles

46.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.