Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bible

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

11.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

12.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

13.

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

14.

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

Palmerston, Lord

15.

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

Canetti, Elias

16.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

17.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

18.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

19.

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

20.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

21.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

22.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

24.

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

Greene, Graham

25.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

26.

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

Barker, Clive

27.

'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

28.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

29.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

30.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

31.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

32.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

33.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

36.

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

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

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

39.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

40.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

42.

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

Camus, Albert

43.

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

44.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.

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

Hook, Sydney

46.

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

47.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

48.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

49.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

50.

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

Bayly, Joseph