Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bertolt Brecht

Best Quotes about Death

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Horace

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Allen, Woody

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Woody Allen

11.

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

12.

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

Beaumont, Francis

13.

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

Foster, John W.

14.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

16.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

17.

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

18.

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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

20.

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

Bertolt Brecht

21.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

22.

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

23.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

24.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

25.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

26.

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

Montgomery, James

27.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

28.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

29.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

30.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

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

Cocteau, Jean

33.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

34.

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

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

Byron, Lord

36.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

38.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

40.

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

41.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

43.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

44.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

45.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Luther, Martin

49.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

50.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver