Motivational Quotes

Death

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Death

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

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

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Edith Sitwell

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Horace

10.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

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

George Burns

13.

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

Lucan, F. L.

14.

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

Hubbard, Kin

15.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

17.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

18.

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

19.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

20.

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

Ken, Thomas

21.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

22.

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

Fielding, Henry

23.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

26.

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

Fromm, Erich

27.

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

28.

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

Donne, John

29.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

31.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

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

33.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

34.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

35.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

36.

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

37.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

38.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

39.

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

Forster, Edward M.

40.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

41.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

42.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

43.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

44.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

45.

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

Allen, Woody

46.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

47.

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

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.