Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Death

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Matt Frewer

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

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

Frost, Robert

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

10.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

11.

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

Charles II

12.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

13.

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.

14.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

15.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

17.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

18.

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

19.

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

Keats, John

20.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Craig Volk

26.

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

Edith Sitwell

27.

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

Keats, John

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.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

30.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

32.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

33.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

34.

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

35.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

36.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

38.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

39.

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

40.

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

Canetti, Elias

41.

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

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

Fromm, Erich

44.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

47.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Randy K. Milholland