Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ellis, Alice Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

John Scalzi

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Euripides

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

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Allen, Woody

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

10.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

11.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

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

13.

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

Luther, Martin

14.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

15.

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

16.

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

Camus, Albert

17.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

18.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

19.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

20.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

21.

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

Macdonald, George

22.

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

23.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

24.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

25.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

26.

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.

27.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

28.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

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

32.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Mitford, William

35.

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

Chandler, Raymond

36.

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

Becht, Ben

37.

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

Farber, Dave

38.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

39.

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

40.

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

Woody Allen

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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

42.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

43.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

44.

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

Bacon, Francis

45.

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

Publilius Syrus

46.

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

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

48.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

49.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

50.

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

Dryden, John