Motivational Quotes

Death

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

- Pamela Ribon

Best Quotes about Death

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

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

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

Young, Edward

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

10.

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

George Burns

11.

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

Becht, Ben

12.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

14.

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

Craig Volk

15.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

16.

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

17.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

18.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

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

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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

25.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

28.

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

Farber, Dave

29.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

30.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

31.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

32.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

33.

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

34.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

35.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

36.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Carson, Johnny

39.

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

40.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

41.

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

Greene, Graham

42.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

43.

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

44.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

45.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

47.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

48.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

49.

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

50.

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