Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

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

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

11.

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

12.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

13.

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

14.

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

Bacon, Francis

15.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

19.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

20.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

21.

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

22.

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

Fielding, Henry

23.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

24.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

25.

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

Woody Allen

26.

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

Hazlitt, William

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

34.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

35.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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.

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

40.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

41.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

42.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

43.

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

44.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

45.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

48.

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

49.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

50.

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