Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Stephanie Klein

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

Keats, John

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

Farber, Dave

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

10.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

11.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

12.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

13.

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

14.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

15.

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

16.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

17.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

18.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

19.

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

20.

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

Edith Sitwell

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Bayly, Joseph

23.

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

24.

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

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

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

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

Allen, Woody

28.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

29.

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

30.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

32.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

36.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

37.

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

Macdonald, George

38.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

39.

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

40.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

41.

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

Woody Allen

42.

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

Bible

43.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

46.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

47.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare