Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Dryden, John

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Camus, Albert

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

Publilius Syrus

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

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

George Burns

13.

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

Camus, Albert

14.

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

Bible

15.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

16.

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

Fielding, Henry

17.

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

Heidegger, Martin

18.

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

19.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

20.

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

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

22.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

26.

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

27.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Euripides

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Macdonald, George

32.

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

Fielding, Henry

33.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

34.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

35.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

36.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

37.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

38.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

39.

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

40.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

41.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

42.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Montgomery, James

44.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

45.

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.

46.

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

Ken, Thomas

47.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

48.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

49.

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

50.

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

Craig Volk