Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Frost, Robert

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

Craig Volk

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bible

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

10.

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

11.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

12.

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

13.

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

Eliot, George

14.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

15.

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

16.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

19.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

20.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Keats, John

22.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

23.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

24.

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

Edith Sitwell

25.

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

Heidegger, Martin

26.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

27.

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

Ann Radcliffe

28.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

29.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

31.

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

32.

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

Allen, Woody

33.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

34.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

35.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

36.

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

Becht, Ben

37.

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

Randy K. Milholland

38.

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

Montgomery, James

39.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

40.

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

Picabia, Francis

41.

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

42.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

43.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

44.

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

45.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

46.

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

47.

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

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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

49.

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

50.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord