Motivational Quotes

Death

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Death

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

Camus, Albert

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Fromm, Erich

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

11.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

12.

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

Palmerston, Lord

13.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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

15.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

16.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

17.

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.

18.

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

Cocteau, Jean

19.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

21.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

22.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

24.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

25.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

26.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

27.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

28.

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

29.

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

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

31.

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

Camus, Albert

32.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

33.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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

36.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Moody, Dwight L.

38.

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

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

Horace

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

42.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

43.

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

Bagnold, Enid

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

47.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

48.

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

Plato

49.

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

50.

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

Young, Edward