Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Gide, Andre

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

10.

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

Allen, Woody

11.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

15.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

17.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

18.

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

Woody Allen

19.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

21.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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

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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

25.

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

Gray, Thomas

26.

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

27.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

28.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

29.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

30.

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

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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

34.

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

Publilius Syrus

35.

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

36.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Craig Volk

38.

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

Milton, John

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

42.

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

43.

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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Bible

46.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

47.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

48.

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

49.

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

Cocteau, Jean

50.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily