Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Stephanie Klein

Best Quotes about Death

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

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Donne, John

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

Hubbard, Kin

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Buffett, Jimmy

10.

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

Bible

11.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

12.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

13.

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

14.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Gide, Andre

18.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

19.

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

20.

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

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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

22.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Macdonald, George

26.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

27.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

28.

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

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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

30.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

31.

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

32.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

33.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

34.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

35.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

37.

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

39.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

40.

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

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

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

43.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

44.

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

Foster, John W.

45.

'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

46.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

47.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

48.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis