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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Greene, Graham

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

Bible

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

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

Bacon, Francis

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Fielding, Henry

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Camus, Albert

10.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

11.

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

Allen, Woody

12.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

13.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

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

15.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

Craig Volk

17.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Foster, John W.

21.

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

Matt Frewer

22.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

23.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

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

Farber, Dave

26.

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

Publilius Syrus

27.

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

28.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

29.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Ken, Thomas

31.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

32.

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

33.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

34.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

35.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

36.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

37.

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

Euripides

38.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

39.

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

Horace

40.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

41.

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

42.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

43.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

44.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

45.

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

46.

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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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

48.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

49.

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

Epictetus

50.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De