Motivational Quotes

Death

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Montgomery, James

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Ann Radcliffe

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

'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

12.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

13.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

14.

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

15.

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

Bagnold, Enid

16.

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

Mann, Thomas

17.

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

18.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

19.

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

Addison, Joseph

20.

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

Canetti, Elias

21.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

22.

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

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

Hamilton, Hugh

24.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

25.

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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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

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

Oscar Wilde

28.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

29.

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

30.

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

Dryden, John

31.

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

Lucan, F. L.

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Publilius Syrus

35.

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

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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

37.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

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

40.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

41.

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

42.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

43.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

44.

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

Charles II

45.

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

46.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

47.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

50.

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

Fromm, Erich