Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bible

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

Stephanie Klein

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Heidegger, Martin

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Landor, Walter Savage

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

10.

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

11.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

12.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

13.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

14.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

18.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

19.

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

Frida Kahlo

20.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

21.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

23.

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

Keats, John

24.

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

Macdonald, George

25.

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

26.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

27.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

29.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

30.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

31.

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

32.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

Thrale, Hester i

34.

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

36.

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

Frost, Robert

37.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

38.

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

39.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hermes, Georg

44.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Sophocles

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.