Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Death

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Randy K. Milholland

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

11.

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.

12.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

15.

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

Matt Frewer

16.

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

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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

Montgomery, James

20.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

21.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

22.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Camus, Albert

25.

'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

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

Greene, Graham

27.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

28.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

29.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

30.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

31.

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

Gide, Andre

32.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

33.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

34.

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

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

36.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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.

38.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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

40.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

42.

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

Allen, Woody

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