Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Death

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

10.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

11.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

12.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

13.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

14.

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

Allen, Woody

15.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

18.

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

Mitford, William

19.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

20.

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

21.

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

Edith Sitwell

22.

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

23.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

24.

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

25.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Canetti, Elias

28.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

29.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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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.

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

33.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

34.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

35.

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

Plato

36.

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

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

38.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

39.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

40.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

41.

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

Bright, Grant M.

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Craig Volk

45.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.