Motivational Quotes

Death

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

- Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Best Quotes about Death

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Duffecy, James

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

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Randy K. Milholland

13.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

14.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Carson, Johnny

18.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

19.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

20.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

21.

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

22.

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

Bright, Grant M.

23.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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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

25.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

26.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

27.

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

28.

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

Fielding, Henry

29.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

30.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

31.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

32.

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

33.

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

Ann Radcliffe

34.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

35.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

36.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

37.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

38.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

39.

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

40.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

41.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

43.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

Horace

45.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

47.

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

Hermes, Georg

48.

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

Publilius Syrus

49.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.