Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Landor, Walter Savage

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Allen, Woody

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

10.

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

11.

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

Macdonald, George

12.

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

Hazlitt, William

13.

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

Sophocles

14.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

15.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

20.

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

Woody Allen

21.

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

A. Sachs

22.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

23.

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

Frost, Robert

24.

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

25.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

26.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

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

28.

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

Bryant, William C.

29.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

30.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

33.

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

Plato

34.

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

35.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Bronte, Emily

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

38.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

41.

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

Randy K. Milholland

42.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

43.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

45.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

46.

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

47.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

49.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.