Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Woody Allen

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

11.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

13.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

14.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

15.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

16.

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

17.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

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

Foster, John W.

19.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

20.

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

Butler, Samuel

21.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

22.

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

Bayly, Joseph

23.

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

Byron, Lord

24.

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

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

Ann Radcliffe

27.

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

Bible

28.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

29.

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

Publilius Syrus

30.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

31.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

32.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

33.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

34.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

36.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

38.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

39.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

40.

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

Hubbard, Kin

41.

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

42.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

43.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

44.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

45.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Beaumont, Francis

49.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

50.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron