Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Moody, Dwight L.

Best Quotes about Death

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Thrale, Hester i

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

13.

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.

14.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

15.

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

16.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

17.

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

18.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

Edith Sitwell

21.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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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

23.

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.

24.

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

Ken, Thomas

25.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

26.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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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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

30.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

31.

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

Bayly, Joseph

32.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

37.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

38.

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

Bhagavad Gita

39.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

Bryant, William C.

41.

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

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

43.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

44.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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