Motivational Quotes

Death

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Death

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Bhagavad Gita

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

10.

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

11.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

12.

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

Addison, Joseph

13.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

14.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

15.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Beaumont, Francis

19.

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

Woody Allen

20.

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

21.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

22.

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

Foster, John W.

23.

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

Bagnold, Enid

24.

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

Butler, Samuel

25.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

28.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

30.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

31.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

32.

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

Greene, Graham

33.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

Macdonald, George

35.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

36.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Manilius, Marcus

42.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

43.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

44.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

45.

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

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.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

49.

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

50.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert