Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Death

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Palmerston, Lord

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Fromm, Erich

10.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

11.

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

12.

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

Plato

13.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

15.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

17.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

18.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

19.

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

Farber, Dave

20.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

21.

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 fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

23.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

25.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

26.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

27.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Foster, John W.

30.

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

Johnny Carson

31.

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

32.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

33.

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

34.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

35.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

36.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

37.

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

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

Craig Volk

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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

40.

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

Hermes, Georg

41.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

44.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

45.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

46.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

47.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

48.

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

Euripides

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