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

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Bible

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

Canetti, Elias

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Lee, Nathaniel

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

10.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

11.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

13.

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

Woody Allen

14.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

15.

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

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

17.

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

Gide, Andre

18.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

19.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

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

Dryden, John

21.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

22.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

25.

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.

26.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

27.

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

Allen, Woody

28.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

32.

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

Mann, Thomas

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

34.

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

Pamela Ribon

35.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

37.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Young, Edward

40.

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

Fromm, Erich

41.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

Randy K. Milholland

43.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

44.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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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

49.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas