Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Butler, Samuel

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

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Publilius Syrus

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

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

11.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

12.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Keats, John

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

Chandler, Raymond

18.

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

19.

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

Craig Volk

20.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

21.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

22.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

23.

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

24.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

27.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

28.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

29.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

30.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

31.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

32.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

33.

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

34.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

36.

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

Publilius Syrus

37.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

38.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

39.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

40.

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

Epicurus

41.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

42.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

43.

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

Ken, Thomas

44.

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

A. Sachs

45.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Camus, Albert

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

Craig Volk

49.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

50.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!