Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Death

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Heidegger, Martin

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Becht, Ben

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

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

Dryden, John

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

Horace

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

10.

'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

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

12.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

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

Bagnold, Enid

14.

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

15.

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

Donne, John

16.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

20.

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

Woody Allen

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

23.

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

24.

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

Woody Allen

25.

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

Hook, Sydney

26.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

30.

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

Sophocles

31.

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

32.

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

Greene, Graham

33.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

34.

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

35.

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

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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

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

38.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

39.

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

40.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

41.

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

42.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

43.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

44.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

45.

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

46.

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

Craig Volk

47.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

48.

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

Craig Volk

49.

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