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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

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

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

10.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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

12.

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

Dryden, John

13.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

14.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

15.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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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

18.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

19.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

20.

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

Oscar Wilde

21.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

22.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

Carson, Johnny

25.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

26.

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

Craig Volk

27.

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

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

Allen, Woody

30.

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

31.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

32.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

33.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

34.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

35.

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

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Eliot, George

42.

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

Edith Sitwell

43.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

44.

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

45.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

46.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Woody Allen

48.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

49.

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

50.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk