Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

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

Johnny Carson

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

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

14.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Edith Sitwell

18.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

19.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

20.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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.

22.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

23.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

24.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

25.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

26.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

27.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

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

30.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

32.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

33.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

Keats, John

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

Dryden, John

36.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

38.

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

Berra, Yogi

39.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

42.

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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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

44.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

45.

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

46.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

48.

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

Charles II

49.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.