Motivational Quotes

Death

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Euripides

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

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

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

12.

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

13.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

14.

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

Ann Radcliffe

15.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

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

Woody Allen

19.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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

21.

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

Fromm, Erich

22.

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

23.

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

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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

25.

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

26.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

27.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

28.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

32.

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.

33.

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.

34.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

35.

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

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

37.

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

Diderot, Denis

38.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

39.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

40.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

41.

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

Gide, Andre

42.

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

43.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

44.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

45.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

46.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

48.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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

Bright, Grant M.

50.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz