Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Frida Kahlo

Best Quotes about Death

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

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

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Hermes, Georg

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

10.

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

Keats, John

11.

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

12.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

13.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Miller, Joaquin

16.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

17.

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

Macdonald, George

18.

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

19.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

20.

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

Euripides

21.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

23.

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

24.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

25.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

26.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

27.

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

Duffecy, James

28.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

30.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

31.

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

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

33.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

34.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Cocteau, Jean

38.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

39.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Craig Volk

43.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

44.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

45.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.