Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Death

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

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

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

10.

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

Randy K. Milholland

11.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

12.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

13.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

16.

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

17.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

20.

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

Sophocles

21.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

22.

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

23.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

24.

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

25.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

26.

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

John Scalzi

27.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

28.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

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

Bertolt Brecht

30.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

37.

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

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

40.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

41.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

42.

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

43.

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

Matt Frewer

44.

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.

45.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

46.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

48.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

49.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.