Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Charles II

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

10.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

11.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Marvell, Andrew

13.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

14.

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

Eliot, George

15.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

16.

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

17.

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

Auden, W. H.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

24.

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

Epicurus

25.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

26.

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

Hubbard, Kin

27.

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

Bible

28.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

29.

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

30.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

31.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

33.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

35.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

36.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

37.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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

42.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

43.

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.

44.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mann, Thomas

46.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

47.

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

Keats, John

48.

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Hazlitt, William

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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