Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Death

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

Publilius Syrus

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

10.

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

11.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

12.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

13.

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

John Scalzi

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

19.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

20.

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

Farber, Dave

21.

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

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

24.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

25.

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

Allen, Woody

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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

27.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

28.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

29.

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

Dryden, John

30.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

32.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Bible

36.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

37.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

38.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

39.

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

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

42.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

43.

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

Dickinson, Emily

44.

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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Bible

47.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

48.

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

49.

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

Oscar Wilde

50.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond