Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Eliot, George

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

10.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

11.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

12.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

13.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

15.

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

Woody Allen

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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

17.

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

Fromm, Erich

18.

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

Woody Allen

19.

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

Thrale, Hester i

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

22.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

23.

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

Montgomery, James

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.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

26.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

29.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

30.

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

31.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

32.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

34.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Aaron McGruder

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Allen, Woody

39.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

42.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Horace

45.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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

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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

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Picabia, Francis

50.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.