Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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 never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

10.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

Woody Allen

13.

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

14.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

15.

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

Bagnold, Enid

16.

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

Miller, Joaquin

17.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

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

19.

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

Dryden, John

20.

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

Bright, Grant M.

21.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

22.

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

Eliot, George

23.

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

Hook, Sydney

24.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

25.

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

26.

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

Edith Sitwell

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.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

29.

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

30.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

31.

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

32.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

33.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

34.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

35.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.

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

37.

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.

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

39.

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

40.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

41.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

42.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

43.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

44.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

45.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

46.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

48.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

49.

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