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

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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.

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Lee, Nathaniel

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

13.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

14.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

17.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

18.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

19.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

20.

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

Randy K. Milholland

21.

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

22.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

23.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

24.

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

Hoffer, Eric

25.

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

Hook, Sydney

26.

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

27.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

29.

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

John Scalzi

30.

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

31.

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

32.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

36.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

37.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

38.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

39.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

40.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

41.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

42.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

43.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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.

47.

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

Barker, Clive

48.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?