Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hendrix, Jimi

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

10.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

11.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

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

Thrale, Hester i

13.

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

14.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

15.

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

Bertolt Brecht

16.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

17.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Bayly, Joseph

19.

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

20.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

21.

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

Young, Edward

22.

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

23.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

24.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

25.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

27.

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

Bhagavad Gita

28.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Bright, Grant M.

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

32.

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

33.

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

Greene, Graham

34.

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

Camus, Albert

35.

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

36.

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

Carson, Johnny

37.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

38.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

39.

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

40.

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

Diderot, Denis

41.

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

42.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Auerbach, Red

46.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

47.

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

48.

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