Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

10.

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

Frida Kahlo

11.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

15.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

16.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

20.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

25.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

26.

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

Picabia, Francis

27.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

28.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

32.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

33.

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

Woody Allen

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

39.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

40.

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

Bible

41.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

42.

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

Ann Radcliffe

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

45.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

46.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

48.

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

Hermes, Georg

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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

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily