Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Death

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

John Scalzi

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.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

10.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

12.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

13.

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

Hoffer, Eric

14.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

15.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

16.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

17.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Macdonald, George

20.

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

Plato

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Ken, Thomas

24.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

25.

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

Bacon, Francis

26.

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

Lowell, James Russell

27.

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

Bryant, William C.

28.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

29.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

32.

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

33.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

34.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

37.

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.

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

39.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

40.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

41.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

42.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

43.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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

45.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

46.

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

Foster, John W.

47.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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