Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Death

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

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Young, Edward

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Foster, John W.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

13.

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

Picabia, Francis

14.

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

Publilius Syrus

15.

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

David Assael

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

18.

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

Donne, John

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Hubbard, Kin

23.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

24.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Bertolt Brecht

26.

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

Hazlitt, William

27.

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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

31.

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

32.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

36.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

37.

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

Bryant, William C.

38.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

39.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

40.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

41.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

43.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.