Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bagnold, Enid

Best Quotes about Death

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Epictetus

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

Bacon, Francis

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

12.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

13.

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.

14.

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

Berra, Yogi

15.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

18.

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

Plato

19.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

22.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

23.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

24.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

25.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

27.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

28.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

31.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

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

Heidegger, Martin

33.

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

34.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

35.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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]

Bible

37.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

38.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

39.

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

Keats, John

40.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

41.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

42.

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

Matt Frewer

43.

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

Randy K. Milholland

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

46.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

47.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

49.

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

50.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer