Motivational Quotes

Death

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

- Philip II

Best Quotes about Death

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Lee, Nathaniel

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

12.

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

Forster, Edward M.

13.

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

14.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

16.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

17.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

18.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

19.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

20.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

21.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

22.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Montgomery, James

25.

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

Camus, Albert

26.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

27.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

28.

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

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

31.

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

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

Bible

33.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

34.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

35.

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

Pamela Ribon

36.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

38.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

40.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Stephanie Klein

43.

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

Lucan, F. L.

44.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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