Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bible

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

10.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

11.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

13.

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

14.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

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

Fielding, Henry

16.

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

Lucan, F. L.

17.

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

18.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

19.

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

20.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

21.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

25.

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

26.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

27.

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

Keats, John

28.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

29.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

30.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

31.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

32.

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

33.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

34.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

35.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

36.

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

Stephanie Klein

37.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

38.

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

39.

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

40.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

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

David Assael

42.

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

Thrale, Hester i

43.

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

44.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

45.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

46.

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

47.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

48.

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

Edith Sitwell

49.

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

Mann, Thomas

50.

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.