Motivational Quotes

Death

These have not the hope to die.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Death

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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]

Bible

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

Epicurus

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

10.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

11.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Randy K. Milholland

15.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

16.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

17.

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

18.

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

David Assael

19.

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

Johnny Carson

20.

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

Charles II

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

22.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

26.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

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

Woody Allen

30.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

Bright, Grant M.

32.

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

Gray, Thomas

33.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Foster, John W.

35.

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

Sophocles

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

37.

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

Beaumont, Francis

38.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Woody Allen

40.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

42.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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

45.

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

Fromm, Erich

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

47.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

48.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

49.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin