Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Craig Volk

10.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

11.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

12.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

13.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

14.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Becht, Ben

16.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Forster, Edward M.

19.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

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

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

22.

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

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

24.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

25.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

26.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

28.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

34.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

36.

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.

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

Frida Kahlo

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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

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

40.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

41.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

42.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

43.

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

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

Bagnold, Enid

45.

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

Fromm, Erich

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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

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

48.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag