Motivational Quotes

Death

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Death

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

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Plato

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

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

10.

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

Hook, Sydney

11.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

12.

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

13.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

14.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

15.

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

Craig Volk

16.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

17.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

18.

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.

19.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

20.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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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

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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

26.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

28.

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

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

Mann, Thomas

30.

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

Hubbard, Kin

31.

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

Frida Kahlo

32.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

33.

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

Beaumont, Francis

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

35.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

36.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

37.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

38.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

39.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

40.

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

41.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

42.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

43.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

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

Randy K. Milholland

45.

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

Pamela Ribon

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

48.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

49.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

50.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De