Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Manilius, Marcus

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Gide, Andre

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

Dryden, John

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

11.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

12.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

14.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

15.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

16.

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

17.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

18.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

19.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

22.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

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

24.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

26.

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

Hermes, Georg

27.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

28.

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

29.

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

30.

'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

31.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

32.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

33.

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

Cocteau, Jean

34.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

35.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

36.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

37.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

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

39.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

40.

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

Craig Volk

41.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

42.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

'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

47.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

48.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

49.

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

Luther, Martin