Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Duffecy, James

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

10.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

11.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

12.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

13.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

14.

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

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

19.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

20.

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

21.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

23.

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

24.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

25.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

26.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

28.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

29.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

30.

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

Heidegger, Martin

31.

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

Horace

32.

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

Allen, Woody

33.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

35.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

36.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

37.

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

38.

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

Hook, Sydney

39.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

40.

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

Ken, Thomas

41.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

43.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

48.

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

49.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.