Motivational Quotes

Death

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

- Plato

Best Quotes about Death

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

Allen, Woody

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Dryden, John

10.

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

11.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

12.

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

Bhagavad Gita

13.

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

14.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

15.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

16.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

17.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

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

19.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

20.

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

21.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

22.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

23.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

24.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

25.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

26.

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

Berra, Yogi

27.

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

28.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

29.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

30.

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

Frost, Robert

31.

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

Horace

32.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

33.

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

Carson, Johnny

34.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

35.

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

Keats, John

36.

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

37.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

39.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

40.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

41.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

43.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

45.

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

Mann, Thomas

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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

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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

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

49.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Lowell, James Russell