Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- John Scalzi

Best Quotes about Death

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

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

Aaron McGruder

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

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

Barker, Clive

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Camus, Albert

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.

10.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

12.

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

Farber, Dave

13.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

14.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Butler, Samuel

18.

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

19.

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

Marvell, Andrew

20.

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

Young, Edward

21.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

22.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

24.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

25.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

26.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

27.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

28.

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

Bible

29.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

30.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Canetti, Elias

32.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

Craig Volk

34.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

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

Ann Radcliffe

36.

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

37.

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

Landers, Ann

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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

39.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bhagavad Gita

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

43.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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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.

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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

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

48.

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

Epictetus

49.

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

Gide, Andre

50.

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

Picabia, Francis