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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Frida Kahlo

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Haracourt, Edmond

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Bible

10.

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

Euripides

11.

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

Farber, Dave

12.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

13.

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

Heidegger, Martin

14.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

15.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

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

17.

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

Diderot, Denis

18.

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

Plato

19.

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

20.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

21.

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

22.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

23.

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

Hook, Sydney

24.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

25.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

26.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

29.

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

30.

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

Fielding, Henry

31.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

32.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

33.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

34.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

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

Frost, Robert

36.

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]

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

39.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

40.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

41.

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

Becht, Ben

42.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

43.

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

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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

45.

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

Matt Frewer

46.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

47.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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

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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