Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bryant, William C.

Best Quotes about Death

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Allen, Woody

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

10.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

11.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Duffecy, James

14.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

15.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

16.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

18.

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

19.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

20.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

21.

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

Fielding, Henry

22.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Horace

25.

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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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28.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

29.

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

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30.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

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

33.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

34.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

35.

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

Keats, John

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

William Shakespeare

37.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

38.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

39.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

40.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

41.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

42.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

43.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

44.

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

David Assael

45.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

46.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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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

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

Charles II

49.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas