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

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

Camus, Albert

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Beaumont, Francis

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Randy K. Milholland

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Bayly, Joseph

17.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

18.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

19.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

21.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

22.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

23.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

24.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

26.

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

Hoffer, Eric

27.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

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

29.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

30.

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

Hubbard, Kin

31.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

32.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

33.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

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.

36.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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.

38.

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

Carson, Johnny

39.

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

40.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

41.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

42.

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

43.

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

Picabia, Francis

44.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Cocteau, Jean

47.

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

Horace

48.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

49.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Allen, Woody