Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Bible

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Bayly, Joseph

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

10.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

11.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

13.

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

Frida Kahlo

14.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

15.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

16.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

17.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

18.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

19.

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

20.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

Keats, John

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

24.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

27.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

28.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

29.

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

30.

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

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

32.

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

Lucan, F. L.

33.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

34.

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

35.

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

Hermes, Georg

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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

37.

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

Plato

38.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

39.

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

Fielding, Henry

40.

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

Dryden, John

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Camus, Albert

43.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

44.

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

45.

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

46.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

47.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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