Motivational Quotes

Death

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Death

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Dryden, John

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Lee, Nathaniel

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Marvell, Andrew

10.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

11.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Sophocles

13.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

14.

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

Young, Edward

15.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

17.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

22.

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

Bacon, Francis

23.

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

24.

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

25.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mann, Thomas

27.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

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

Hook, Sydney

29.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

30.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

31.

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

Craig Volk

32.

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

Keats, John

33.

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

Plato

34.

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

Duffecy, James

35.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

36.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

37.

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

38.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

40.

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.

41.

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

Einstein, Albert

42.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

43.

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.

44.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

45.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

50.

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

Darrow, Clarence