Motivational Quotes

Death

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Death

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

Macdonald, George

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Pamela Ribon

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

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

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

Bible

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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

Frost, Robert

12.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

14.

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

15.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

17.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

18.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

19.

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.

20.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

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

Plato

23.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

24.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

26.

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

Cocteau, Jean

27.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

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

Carson, Johnny

29.

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

Donne, John

30.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

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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

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

38.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

40.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

41.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

42.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

44.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

45.

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

Thrale, Hester i

46.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

47.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Butler, Samuel