Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Ken, Thomas

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Euripides

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Butler, Samuel

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

10.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

12.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Montgomery, James

14.

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

15.

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

Randy K. Milholland

16.

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

Publilius Syrus

17.

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

Matt Frewer

18.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

19.

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

Auden, W. H.

20.

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

21.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

23.

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

A. Sachs

24.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

25.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

27.

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

28.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

29.

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

Eliot, George

30.

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

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

Edith Sitwell

32.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

33.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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.

36.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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

40.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

42.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

43.

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

Woody Allen

44.

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

45.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

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

Bacon, Francis

47.

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

Foster, John W.

48.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

49.

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

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

Havner, Vance