Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Fromm, Erich

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

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

Mitford, William

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

10.

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

Woody Allen

11.

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

Hermes, Georg

12.

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

13.

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

Bacon, Francis

14.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

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

Allen, Woody

16.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

17.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

18.

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

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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

20.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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.

22.

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

Frida Kahlo

23.

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

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

Craig Volk

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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

28.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

29.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

30.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

31.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

32.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

34.

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

35.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

38.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Hazlitt, William

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Bertolt Brecht

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

44.

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

Keats, John

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

47.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

48.

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

Duffecy, James

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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

50.

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

William Shakespeare