Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Bible

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

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

Butler, Samuel

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Darrow, Clarence

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

10.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

11.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

12.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

13.

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

Craig Volk

14.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

16.

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

Mitford, William

17.

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

18.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Duffecy, James

21.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

22.

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

Woody Allen

23.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

25.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

26.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

27.

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

Hermes, Georg

28.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

29.

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

30.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

31.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

33.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

34.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

35.

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

36.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

37.

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

Woody Allen

38.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

39.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

40.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

41.

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

Lucan, F. L.

42.

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

Berra, Yogi

43.

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

44.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

45.

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

46.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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