Motivational Quotes

Death

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

- Certeau, Michel De

Best Quotes about Death

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Keats, John

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

A. Sachs

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

11.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

12.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

13.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

15.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

16.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

17.

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.

18.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

19.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

20.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

21.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

24.

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

25.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

26.

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

Hermes, Georg

27.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

28.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Butler, Samuel

31.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

32.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

33.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Miller, Joaquin

36.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

38.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Duffecy, James

40.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

41.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

42.

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

Bright, Grant M.

43.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

44.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

45.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

46.

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

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

49.

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

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