Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Hazlitt, William

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

George Burns

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

Camus, Albert

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

10.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

11.

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

Mann, Thomas

12.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

13.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

14.

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

Horace

15.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

16.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

17.

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

Keats, John

18.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

19.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

20.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

21.

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

Edith Sitwell

22.

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

Bayly, Joseph

23.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

24.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

25.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

26.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

28.

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

29.

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

Manilius, Marcus

30.

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

Euripides

31.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

32.

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

33.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

34.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

35.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

39.

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