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

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Guthrie, Arlo

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Macdonald, George

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Keats, John

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

John Scalzi

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

10.

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

Camus, Albert

11.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

14.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

15.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

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

Edith Sitwell

17.

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

Picabia, Francis

18.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

23.

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

Hermes, Georg

24.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

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

Montgomery, James

26.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

27.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Hazlitt, William

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

33.

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

Plato

34.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

35.

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

36.

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

Bertolt Brecht

37.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

38.

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

Lowell, James Russell

39.

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

Fielding, Henry

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

43.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

45.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

46.

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

47.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

48.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

49.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

50.

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