Motivational Quotes

Death

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

- Philip II

Best Quotes about Death

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

Aaron McGruder

14.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

15.

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.

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

19.

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

Camus, Albert

20.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

21.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

22.

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

Ken, Thomas

23.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

24.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Gray, Thomas

28.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

29.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

30.

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

31.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

37.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

39.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

40.

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

41.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

48.

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

49.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

50.

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