Motivational Quotes

Death

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Butler, Samuel

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hazlitt, William

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Montgomery, James

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

Bible

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

Keats, John

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

Bible

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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

11.

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

Duffecy, James

12.

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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'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

14.

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

Allen, Woody

15.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

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

Hubbard, Kin

17.

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

Diderot, Denis

18.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

23.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

24.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Woody Allen

31.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

32.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

33.

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

Hook, Sydney

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

35.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

36.

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

Horace

37.

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

38.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Bright, Grant M.

42.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

43.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

45.

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

Butler, Samuel

46.

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

47.

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

48.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

49.

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De