Motivational Quotes

Death

An evil life is a kind of death.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Death

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Johnny Carson

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Macdonald, George

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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.

11.

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

Bible

12.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

15.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

16.

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

Fromm, Erich

18.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

19.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

21.

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

Randy K. Milholland

22.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

25.

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.

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Oscar Wilde

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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

33.

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

Carson, Johnny

34.

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

35.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

36.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

37.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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

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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

42.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

43.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

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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

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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

47.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

48.

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

49.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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