Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Forster, Edward M.

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

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

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Marvell, Andrew

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

10.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

11.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

16.

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.

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

Hazlitt, William

18.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

20.

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

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

Stephanie Klein

22.

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

Ken, Thomas

23.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

24.

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

25.

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

26.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

27.

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

Bagnold, Enid

28.

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

George Burns

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

33.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

34.

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

Edith Sitwell

35.

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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

37.

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

38.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Bertolt Brecht

40.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

42.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

43.

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

Allen, Woody

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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.

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

49.

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

Dyer, Wayne

50.

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

Horace