Motivational Quotes

Death

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

- Antonin Artaud

Best Quotes about Death

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

Jefferson, Joseph

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

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

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

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Epictetus

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

10.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

11.

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

Horace

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

15.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

17.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

18.

'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

19.

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

Allen, Woody

20.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

21.

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

Allen, Woody

22.

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

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

24.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

25.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

26.

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

Bright, Grant M.

27.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

28.

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

Bryant, William C.

29.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

30.

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.

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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

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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

Chandler, Raymond

34.

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

35.

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

Picabia, Francis

36.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

37.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

38.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

39.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

42.

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

Matt Frewer

43.

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.

44.

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

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

46.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

47.

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

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

Montgomery, James

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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

50.

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