Motivational Quotes

Death

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

- Bryant, William C.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Young, Edward

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

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Camus, Albert

11.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

12.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

13.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

14.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

15.

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

Berra, Yogi

16.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

24.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

25.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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

Fromm, Erich

27.

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

Frost, Robert

28.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

30.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

31.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

34.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

35.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

36.

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

Mann, Thomas

37.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

38.

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

39.

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

Foster, John W.

40.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

41.

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

42.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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.