Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Death

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

Auden, W. H.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Horace

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

Miller, Joaquin

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

10.

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

Chandler, Raymond

11.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

12.

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

Fromm, Erich

13.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

14.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

15.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

16.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

17.

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

Frida Kahlo

18.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

19.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

20.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Picabia, Francis

22.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

23.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

25.

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

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

27.

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

28.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

29.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

30.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

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

Foster, John W.

32.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

33.

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.

34.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

35.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

36.

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

Hoffer, Eric

37.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

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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

40.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

41.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

42.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

43.

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

44.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

45.

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.

46.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

47.

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

Lucan, F. L.

48.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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