Motivational Quotes

Death

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]

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Best Quotes about Death

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

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

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

Epictetus

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

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

11.

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

12.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

13.

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

Horace

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Craig Volk

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

18.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

19.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

20.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

22.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

23.

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

24.

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

Duffecy, James

25.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

26.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

27.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

28.

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

Bagnold, Enid

29.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

30.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

31.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

33.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

34.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

35.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

36.

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

37.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

38.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

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

Fielding, Henry

42.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

43.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

Bertolt Brecht

47.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

48.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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