Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bagnold, Enid

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Greene, Graham

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

10.

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

11.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

12.

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

13.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Becht, Ben

15.

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

16.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

17.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

18.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

19.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

20.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

21.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Heidegger, Martin

23.

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

24.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

25.

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

Johnny Carson

26.

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.

27.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

28.

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

29.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

30.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Craig Volk

32.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

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

34.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

35.

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

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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

37.

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

Camus, Albert

38.

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

39.

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

Darrow, Clarence

40.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

41.

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

42.

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

Dryden, John

43.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

44.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

45.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

46.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

48.

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

Allen, Woody

49.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

50.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia