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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Farber, Dave

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

11.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

12.

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

13.

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

Montgomery, James

14.

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

Charles II

15.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

21.

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

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

25.

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

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

28.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

29.

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

Gide, Andre

30.

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

Camus, Albert

31.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

32.

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

Horace

33.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

34.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

35.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

38.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

39.

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

Woody Allen

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

42.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

44.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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

46.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

47.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

48.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

49.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

50.

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