Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Fromm, Erich

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.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

10.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

11.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

12.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

13.

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

Plato

14.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

15.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

16.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

18.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

19.

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

Fielding, Henry

20.

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

Stephanie Klein

21.

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

Fielding, Henry

22.

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

Butler, Samuel

23.

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

24.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

26.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

27.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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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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

30.

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

31.

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

Forster, Edward M.

32.

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

33.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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'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

36.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

37.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

38.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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

Ken, Thomas

41.

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

42.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

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

44.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

45.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Moody, Dwight L.

47.

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

George Burns

48.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.