Motivational Quotes

Death

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

'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

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

10.

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

11.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

12.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

13.

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

Barker, Clive

14.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

15.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

16.

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

David Assael

17.

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

18.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

19.

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

Randy K. Milholland

20.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

21.

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

Canetti, Elias

22.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

23.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

24.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

25.

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

Manilius, Marcus

26.

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

27.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

28.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Publilius Syrus

38.

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

39.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

40.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

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

42.

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

Auerbach, Red

43.

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

44.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

45.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

46.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

47.

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.

48.

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

Hoffer, Eric

49.

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

Picabia, Francis

50.

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