Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Byron, Lord

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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.

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

10.

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

Frida Kahlo

11.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

14.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

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

Barker, Clive

16.

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

Publilius Syrus

17.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

18.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

19.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

20.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

21.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

23.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

24.

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

Camus, Albert

25.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

26.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

27.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

29.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

30.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

31.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

33.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

34.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

35.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

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

Hubbard, Kin

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Carson, Johnny

40.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

41.

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

Palmerston, Lord

42.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

43.

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

Bible

44.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

45.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

46.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

47.

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

Dickinson, Emily

48.

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

49.

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

Euripides

50.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De