Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

10.

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.

11.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

12.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

13.

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

14.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

16.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

17.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

18.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

19.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

20.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

21.

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

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

24.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

25.

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.

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

27.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

28.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

29.

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

Johnny Carson

30.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

31.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

32.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

33.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

36.

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

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

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

Carson, Johnny

39.

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

40.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

42.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

44.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

45.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

46.

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

Hook, Sydney

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

49.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Epicurus