Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

10.

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.

11.

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

Johnny Carson

12.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

13.

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

14.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

15.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

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

Dryden, John

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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

19.

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

20.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

21.

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

Randy K. Milholland

22.

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

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

25.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

26.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

27.

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

Epicurus

28.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

30.

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

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Camus, Albert

34.

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

Publilius Syrus

35.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

36.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

37.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

38.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

39.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

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

41.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

42.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

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

Oscar Wilde

44.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Frost, Robert

46.

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

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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

48.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

49.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

50.

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