Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

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.

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

Bible

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Donne, John

10.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

11.

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

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

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

14.

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

George Burns

15.

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

16.

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

17.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

18.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

22.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

23.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

24.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

25.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

26.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

28.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

29.

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

Diderot, Denis

30.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Matt Frewer

32.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

Barker, Clive

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

37.

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

Randy K. Milholland

38.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

39.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

40.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

41.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

42.

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

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

45.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

46.

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

Fielding, Henry

47.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

48.

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

Chandler, Raymond

49.

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

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

Nepos, Cornelius