Motivational Quotes

Death

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Death

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Young, Edward

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Bright, Grant M.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Macdonald, George

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Manilius, Marcus

12.

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

13.

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

14.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

15.

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

16.

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

Johnny Carson

17.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

18.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

19.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

20.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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.

22.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

23.

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

Hazlitt, William

24.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

25.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

26.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Pamela Ribon

30.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

31.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

32.

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

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

35.

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

Donne, John

36.

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

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

Epicurus

38.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

39.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

42.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

43.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

44.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

45.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

46.

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

47.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

48.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

49.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert