Motivational Quotes

Death

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

- Havner, Vance

Best Quotes about Death

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Bacon, Francis

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Allen, Woody

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

10.

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

Ken, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

Heidegger, Martin

13.

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

14.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

15.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

16.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

Montgomery, James

19.

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

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

Camus, Albert

21.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

22.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

23.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

24.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

26.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

27.

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

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

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

Carson, Johnny

31.

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

Bible

32.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

36.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

38.

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

39.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

40.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Marvell, Andrew

42.

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

43.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

44.

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

George Burns

45.

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

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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

47.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

48.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

49.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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