Motivational Quotes

Death

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

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

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Diderot, Denis

14.

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

Fromm, Erich

15.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

16.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

22.

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

23.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

24.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

27.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

29.

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.

30.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

31.

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

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

33.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

34.

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

35.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

36.

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 the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

38.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Hook, Sydney

40.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

41.

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.

42.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

43.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

44.

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

45.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

46.

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.

Mccreery, John Luckey

47.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.