Motivational Quotes

Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Butler, Samuel

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Hermes, Georg

10.

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

Camus, Albert

11.

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.

12.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Pamela Ribon

16.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

17.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

18.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

22.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

24.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

25.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

26.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

28.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

29.

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

Camus, Albert

30.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

31.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

32.

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

Plato

33.

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

34.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

35.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

36.

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

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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

38.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

39.

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.

40.

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

Fromm, Erich

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

44.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

45.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

46.

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

Hook, Sydney

47.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

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

Darrow, Clarence

49.

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

50.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug