Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Death

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bible

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

10.

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

Camus, Albert

11.

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

Epicurus

12.

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

13.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

14.

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

15.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

17.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

18.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

19.

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

Lowell, James Russell

20.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

22.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

23.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

24.

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

Darrow, Clarence

25.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

26.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

27.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

28.

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

Frost, Robert

29.

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

30.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

32.

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

33.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

35.

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

Fromm, Erich

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

39.

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

40.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

41.

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

Miller, Joaquin

42.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Gray, Thomas

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

48.

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

Butler, Samuel

49.

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

50.

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