Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Frida Kahlo

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

10.

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

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

13.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

17.

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

Ken, Thomas

18.

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

Fielding, Henry

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Hubbard, Kin

22.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

25.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

26.

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

Allen, Woody

27.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

29.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

31.

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

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

34.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

Woody Allen

36.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

37.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Duffecy, James

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

40.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

43.

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

Forster, Edward M.

45.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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