Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Bible

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

10.

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

11.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

12.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

13.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

14.

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

Bayly, Joseph

15.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

16.

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

Hoffer, Eric

17.

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

18.

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

19.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

22.

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

Dryden, John

23.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

24.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

25.

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

Farber, Dave

26.

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.

27.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

28.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

29.

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

30.

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

Canetti, Elias

31.

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

32.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

33.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

34.

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

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

36.

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

Bertolt Brecht

37.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

38.

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

39.

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

Butler, Samuel

40.

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

41.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

42.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

43.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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