Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Frida Kahlo

Best Quotes about Death

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

12.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

14.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

15.

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

16.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

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.

18.

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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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

20.

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

Pamela Ribon

21.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

22.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

23.

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

Berra, Yogi

24.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

26.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

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

Butler, Samuel

28.

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

29.

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

Mann, Thomas

30.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

31.

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

Allen, Woody

32.

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

Montgomery, James

33.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

34.

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

Publilius Syrus

35.

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

36.

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

Publilius Syrus

37.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

38.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

40.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

41.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

42.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

43.

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

44.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

45.

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

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

47.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

48.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

49.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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