Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Death

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

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Hendrix, Jimi

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

David Assael

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

Eliot, George

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

12.

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

13.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

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

Bible

18.

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

Foster, John W.

19.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

20.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Keats, John

22.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

23.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

24.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

25.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

26.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

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

Euripides

28.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

29.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

31.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

32.

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

Woody Allen

33.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

34.

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

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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

36.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

38.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

39.

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

40.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

42.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

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

46.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

49.

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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset