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

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Matt Frewer

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

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

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

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

Dryden, John

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

11.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

13.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

14.

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

15.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

16.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

17.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

20.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

21.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

22.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

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

24.

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

Stephanie Klein

25.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

28.

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

29.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

30.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

31.

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

Bhagavad Gita

32.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

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

Fielding, Henry

34.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

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

Aaron McGruder

36.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

38.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

39.

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

Hermes, Georg

40.

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

Allen, Woody

41.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

42.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

43.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

44.

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

45.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

46.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

47.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

48.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

49.

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

Picabia, Francis

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Death doesn't frighten me.