Motivational Quotes

Death

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

- Certeau, Michel De

Best Quotes about Death

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Palmerston, Lord

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bible

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

10.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

12.

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

Stephanie Klein

13.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

14.

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

Epicurus

15.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

16.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

Eliot, George

19.

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

Lucan, F. L.

20.

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

Euripides

21.

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

Auden, W. H.

22.

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

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

24.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

25.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

26.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

27.

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

Hook, Sydney

28.

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

29.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

30.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

31.

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]

Bible

32.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

33.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

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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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.

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Lee, Nathaniel

39.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

40.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

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

42.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

44.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

48.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

49.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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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