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

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

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Becht, Ben

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Darrow, Clarence

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

13.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

16.

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

17.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

18.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

19.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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.

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

23.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

25.

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

26.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

28.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

31.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

32.

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

Fromm, Erich

33.

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

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

Byron, Lord

35.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

36.

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

Publilius Syrus

37.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

38.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

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

40.

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

Plato

41.

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

42.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

43.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

44.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

45.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

46.

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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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

48.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

49.

'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

50.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord