Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Havner, Vance

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

Bible

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Ken, Thomas

10.

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

Gide, Andre

11.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

Bertolt Brecht

13.

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

14.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

16.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Macdonald, George

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Marvell, Andrew

22.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

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

Darrow, Clarence

24.

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

Hubbard, Kin

25.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

26.

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

Bayly, Joseph

27.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

28.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

29.

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

Young, Edward

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

36.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Keats, John

43.

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

44.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

45.

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

46.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

48.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

50.

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