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

1.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

2.

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

Fielding, Henry

3.

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

William Shakespeare

4.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

5.

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

Havner, Vance

6.

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

Bagnold, Enid

7.

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

8.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

9.

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

10.

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

Keats, John

11.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

12.

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

Bayly, Joseph

13.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

14.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

15.

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

16.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

17.

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

Heidegger, Martin

18.

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

Dryden, John

19.

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

Hermes, Georg

20.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

22.

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

Cocteau, Jean

23.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

24.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

26.

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

Hoffer, Eric

27.

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

Keats, John

28.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

29.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

30.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

31.

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

32.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

33.

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

Thrale, Hester i

34.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

35.

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

36.

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

Allen, Woody

37.

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

38.

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

A. Sachs

39.

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

Aaron McGruder

40.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

41.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

Edith Sitwell

43.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

44.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

45.

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

46.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

47.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

48.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

49.

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

George Burns

50.

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

Hazlitt, William