Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Craig Volk

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Camus, Albert

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

11.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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

13.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

14.

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.

15.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

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

17.

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

Mann, Thomas

18.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

19.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

20.

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

Woody Allen

21.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

Butler, Samuel

23.

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

Thrale, Hester i

24.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

25.

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

26.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

28.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

29.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

30.

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

31.

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

Auerbach, Red

32.

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

Stephanie Klein

33.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Ken, Thomas

37.

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

38.

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

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

41.

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

Epictetus

42.

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

43.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

Mitford, William

46.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

48.

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

Diderot, Denis

49.

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

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