Motivational Quotes

Death

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

- Ken, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

12.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

13.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

14.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

15.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

Darrow, Clarence

18.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

19.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

20.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

21.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

23.

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

Berra, Yogi

24.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

25.

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

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

28.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

Hoffer, Eric

31.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

32.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

35.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

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

Forster, Edward M.

40.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

41.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

42.

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

Camus, Albert

43.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

44.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

45.

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

Farber, Dave

46.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

48.

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.

49.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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