Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Death

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

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Byron, Lord

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

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Donne, John

10.

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

Cocteau, Jean

11.

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

Hoffer, Eric

12.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Fromm, Erich

14.

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

15.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

16.

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

Euripides

17.

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

Dryden, John

18.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

20.

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

Fielding, Henry

21.

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

John Scalzi

22.

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

Lowell, James Russell

23.

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

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

Chandler, Raymond

25.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

26.

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

Hermes, Georg

27.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

Stephanie Klein

32.

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

Matt Frewer

33.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

34.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

35.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

45.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

46.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

48.

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

Oscar Wilde

49.

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

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