Motivational Quotes

Death

Death doesn't frighten me.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Death

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Thrale, Hester i

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

10.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

Cocteau, Jean

14.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

18.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

19.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

20.

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

Bagnold, Enid

21.

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

Woody Allen

22.

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

23.

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

Fromm, Erich

24.

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

Butler, Samuel

25.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

26.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

27.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

28.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

29.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

31.

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

32.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

Foster, John W.

34.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

35.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

36.

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

Addison, Joseph

37.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

38.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

39.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

40.

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

Mann, Thomas

41.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

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

Fielding, Henry

43.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

44.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

48.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.