Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

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

Young, Edward

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

10.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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

A. Sachs

12.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

13.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

14.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

15.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

16.

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

Havner, Vance

17.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

18.

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

19.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

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

Ken, Thomas

22.

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

Montgomery, James

23.

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

24.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

25.

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

26.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

Stephanie Klein

28.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

29.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

30.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

31.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

32.

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

33.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

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

35.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

36.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

37.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Heidegger, Martin

39.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

40.

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.

41.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

42.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

43.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

44.

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

Dryden, John

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.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

47.

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

48.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

49.

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

Mann, Thomas

50.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell