Motivational Quotes

Death

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

- Osborne, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Young, Edward

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Horace

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

10.

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

Ken, Thomas

11.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

12.

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

13.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

14.

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

Hazlitt, William

15.

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

16.

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

Donne, John

17.

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

18.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

20.

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

Gide, Andre

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

24.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

25.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

26.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

27.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

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

29.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

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

Woody Allen

31.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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

Euripides

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

Einstein, Albert

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

38.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

39.

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

40.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

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

Bible

43.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

44.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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