Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

10.

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

Plato

11.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

12.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

13.

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

Stephanie Klein

14.

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

15.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

16.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Camus, Albert

19.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

20.

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

21.

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

Euripides

22.

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

23.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

24.

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.

25.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

27.

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

Forster, Edward M.

28.

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

29.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

30.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

31.

Hammarskjold, Dag

32.

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

33.

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

Lucan, F. L.

34.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

35.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

37.

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

Ken, Thomas

38.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

39.

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

Publilius Syrus

40.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

41.

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

Keats, John

42.

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.

43.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

44.

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

45.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

46.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

47.

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

Marvell, Andrew

48.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

49.

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

50.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John