Motivational Quotes

Death

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Death

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Woody Allen

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

10.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

11.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

12.

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

Keats, John

13.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

14.

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

15.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

16.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

17.

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

Gide, Andre

18.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

19.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

20.

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

21.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

22.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

23.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

24.

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

25.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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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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27.

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

Bright, Grant M.

28.

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

Montgomery, James

29.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

30.

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

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31.

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

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

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

Sophocles

34.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

35.

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

Diderot, Denis

36.

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

Mann, Thomas

37.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

41.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

44.

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

Craig Volk

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Addison, Joseph

47.

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

48.

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

Epicurus

49.

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]

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

Lee, Nathaniel