Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Allen, Woody

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Ken, Thomas

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

A. Sachs

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Bible

12.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

13.

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

Carson, Johnny

14.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

15.

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

16.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

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

19.

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

Young, Edward

20.

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

21.

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

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

Duffecy, James

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

30.

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

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

35.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

Marvell, Andrew

37.

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

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

39.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

40.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Dryden, John

43.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

45.

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

46.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

47.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

49.

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.

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

Butler, Samuel