Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Plato

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

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

Bible

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Guthrie, Arlo

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

10.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

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

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

14.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

15.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

16.

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

Fromm, Erich

17.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

20.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

21.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

22.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

24.

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

Auerbach, Red

25.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

26.

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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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

28.

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

Eliot, George

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Donne, John

32.

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

Carson, Johnny

33.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

35.

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

36.

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

37.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

38.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

39.

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

Dryden, John

40.

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

41.

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

Diderot, Denis

42.

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

43.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

44.

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

Fielding, Henry

45.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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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

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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

50.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel