Motivational Quotes

Death

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

10.

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

11.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

12.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

13.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

A. Sachs

16.

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

Fromm, Erich

17.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

18.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

19.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

20.

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

Canetti, Elias

21.

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

Allen, Woody

22.

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

Palmerston, Lord

23.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

24.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

25.

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

26.

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

Camus, Albert

27.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

28.

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

Woody Allen

29.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

31.

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

32.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

34.

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

Miller, Joaquin

35.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Craig Volk

39.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

40.

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

Bright, Grant M.

41.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage