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

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

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

Berra, Yogi

10.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

11.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

13.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

14.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

15.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

16.

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

Fielding, Henry

17.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

18.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

Randy K. Milholland

20.

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

John Scalzi

21.

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

22.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

23.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

24.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

25.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

27.

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

Lucan, F. L.

28.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Gide, Andre

34.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

39.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

41.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

42.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

43.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Fielding, Henry

48.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

49.

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

Becht, Ben

50.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott