Motivational Quotes

Death

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

- Aaron McGruder

Best Quotes about Death

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Montgomery, James

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

10.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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11.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

12.

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

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

Canetti, Elias

14.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

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

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16.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

17.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

18.

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

19.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

20.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

21.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

26.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

28.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

29.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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30.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

31.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

33.

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

Gide, Andre

34.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

35.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

36.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

37.

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

Bayly, Joseph

38.

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

Diderot, Denis

39.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

40.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

41.

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

Greene, Graham

42.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

44.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

45.

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

Bryant, William C.

46.

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

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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

48.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

49.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

50.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia