Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bertolt Brecht

Best Quotes about Death

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Bible

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

11.

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

12.

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

13.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

14.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

Gray, Thomas

19.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

20.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

21.

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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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

23.

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

Becht, Ben

24.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

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.

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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

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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

28.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Moody, Dwight L.

30.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

31.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

32.

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

Aaron McGruder

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

34.

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

35.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

36.

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

Ken, Thomas

37.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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

39.

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

40.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Greene, Graham

42.

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

Horace

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

44.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

45.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

49.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas