Motivational Quotes

Death

To die is landing on some distant shore.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Frost, Robert

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Horace

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

10.

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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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

12.

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

13.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

14.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

15.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

16.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

17.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

18.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

19.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

20.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

21.

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

Bright, Grant M.

22.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

23.

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

Fielding, Henry

24.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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

Gray, Thomas

26.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

27.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

28.

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

29.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

30.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

31.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

32.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

33.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

34.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

35.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

36.

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

Bagnold, Enid

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

38.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

42.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

43.

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

44.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

45.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

49.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John