Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Death

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Craig Volk

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

10.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

11.

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

12.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

13.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

14.

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

15.

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

Ken, Thomas

16.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

17.

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

Eliot, George

18.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

20.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

21.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

22.

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

Lucan, F. L.

23.

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.

24.

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

Hermes, Georg

25.

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

John Scalzi

26.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

27.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

28.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

29.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

30.

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

31.

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

Keats, John

32.

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

Woody Allen

33.

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

Milton, John

34.

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

Manilius, Marcus

35.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

36.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

37.

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

38.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Woody Allen

43.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

44.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

45.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

46.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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

Horace