Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Death

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Hermes, Georg

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Young, Edward

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Eliot, George

10.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

12.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

15.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

16.

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

17.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

18.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

19.

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

Canetti, Elias

20.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

21.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

23.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

25.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

26.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

27.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

28.

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

Publilius Syrus

29.

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

Edith Sitwell

30.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

31.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Epictetus

36.

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

Frida Kahlo

37.

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.

Epicurus

38.

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

Euripides

39.

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

40.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

42.

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

Addison, Joseph

43.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

44.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

45.

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

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

47.

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

Stephanie Klein

48.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

49.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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