Motivational Quotes

Death

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

- Barbauld, Anna Letitia

Best Quotes about Death

'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

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

Epicurus

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Canetti, Elias

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Fromm, Erich

12.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

17.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

18.

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

19.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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

21.

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

Lowell, James Russell

22.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

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.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

24.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

25.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

26.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

27.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

28.

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

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

Greene, Graham

30.

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

Forster, Edward M.

31.

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

32.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

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

Bayly, Joseph

34.

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

35.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

36.

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

37.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

38.

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

Plato

39.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

41.

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

Edith Sitwell

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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

46.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

47.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

48.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.