Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Epicurus

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.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

11.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

12.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

13.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

14.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

15.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

16.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

17.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

18.

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

Bayly, Joseph

19.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

20.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

22.

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

Dryden, John

23.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

25.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

26.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

31.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

32.

'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

33.

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

34.

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

Hook, Sydney

35.

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

Camus, Albert

36.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

37.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

40.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

41.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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He would make a lovely corpse.