Motivational Quotes

Death

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

- Arnold, Matthew

Best Quotes about Death

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

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

Picabia, Francis

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Heidegger, Martin

10.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

11.

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

Camus, Albert

12.

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

13.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

14.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

15.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

16.

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

Matt Frewer

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

19.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

20.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

22.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Hook, Sydney

25.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

26.

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

27.

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

Chandler, Raymond

28.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

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

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

A. Sachs

34.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

35.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

36.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Bacon, Francis

41.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

43.

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

Gide, Andre

44.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

45.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

46.

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

Duffecy, James

47.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

48.

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

Bagnold, Enid

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