Motivational Quotes

Death

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

- Arnold, Matthew

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Bible

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Addison, Joseph

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

10.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

11.

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

12.

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

Johnny Carson

13.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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

15.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Frost, Robert

17.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

18.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

19.

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

Randy K. Milholland

20.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

21.

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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

25.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

26.

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

27.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

28.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

29.

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

30.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

33.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

34.

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

35.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

36.

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

37.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

40.

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

Cocteau, Jean

41.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

42.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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

45.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

46.

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

Palmerston, Lord

47.

'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

48.

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

49.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus