Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Bagnold, Enid

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Edith Sitwell

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

John Scalzi

12.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Marvell, Andrew

14.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

15.

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

16.

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

17.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

19.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

20.

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

21.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

22.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

23.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

27.

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

28.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

George Burns

34.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

35.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

37.

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

38.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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.

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

Fromm, Erich

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.

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

Foster, John W.

43.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

44.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

45.

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

Woody Allen

46.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

47.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

48.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

49.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

50.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George