Motivational Quotes

Death

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

Becht, Ben

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Plato

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

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

Milton, John

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Horace

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Cocteau, Jean

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Charles II

13.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Craig Volk

15.

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

16.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

17.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

18.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

20.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

21.

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.

22.

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

Fielding, Henry

23.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

24.

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

Forster, Edward M.

25.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Leonardo da Vinci

30.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

31.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

32.

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

Keats, John

33.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

34.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Woody Allen

38.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

40.

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.

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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

42.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

43.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

44.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

45.

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

Duffecy, James

46.

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

Barker, Clive

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

48.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

49.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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