Motivational Quotes

Death

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

- Khayyam, Omar

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Plato

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Publilius Syrus

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Ken, Thomas

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

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

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

10.

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

Frida Kahlo

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.

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

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

Hermes, Georg

14.

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

Keats, John

15.

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

Bible

16.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

17.

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

18.

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

Pamela Ribon

19.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

21.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

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

Woody Allen

23.

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

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

26.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

27.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Palmerston, Lord

30.

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

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Fielding, Henry

33.

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

Fielding, Henry

34.

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

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

36.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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

39.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

40.

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

Farber, Dave

41.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

42.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

43.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

48.

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

49.

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

Publilius Syrus

50.

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

Einstein, Albert