Motivational Quotes

Death

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

10.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

Bright, Grant M.

12.

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

Woody Allen

13.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

15.

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

Canetti, Elias

16.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

17.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

18.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

19.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

20.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

22.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

23.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

24.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

25.

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

Dryden, John

26.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

27.

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

Hook, Sydney

28.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

29.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

30.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

31.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

33.

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

Barker, Clive

34.

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

Randy K. Milholland

35.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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.

37.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

38.

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

39.

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

40.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

41.

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

Montgomery, James

42.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

44.

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

45.

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

Palmerston, Lord

46.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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

48.

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

Woody Allen

49.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

50.

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