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

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

Montgomery, James

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

Allen, Woody

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bertolt Brecht

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

'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

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

10.

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

Bible

11.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

12.

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

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

16.

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

17.

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

Horace

18.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

19.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

20.

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

Hermes, Georg

21.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

22.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

23.

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

24.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

25.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

26.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

Bayly, Joseph

28.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

29.

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

Bright, Grant M.

30.

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

Carson, Johnny

31.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

32.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

33.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

34.

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

35.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

36.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

37.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Epicurus

39.

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

40.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

41.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

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

43.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

44.

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

Diderot, Denis

45.

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

46.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

47.

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

Keats, John

48.

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.

49.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

50.

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

Randy K. Milholland