Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Craig Volk

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

Randy K. Milholland

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Chandler, Raymond

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

10.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Horace

12.

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

Macdonald, George

13.

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

Bible

14.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

15.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

16.

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

17.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

18.

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

Bertolt Brecht

19.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

20.

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

Forster, Edward M.

21.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

22.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

23.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

24.

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

25.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Fielding, Henry

29.

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

Mann, Thomas

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

33.

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

34.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

35.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

38.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

39.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

40.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

41.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

42.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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

45.

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

Carson, Johnny

46.

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

Dyer, Wayne

47.

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

Lucan, F. L.

48.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.