Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Bright, Grant M.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

10.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

11.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

13.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

Miller, Joaquin

15.

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

Beaumont, Francis

16.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

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

18.

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

Hazlitt, William

19.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

21.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

22.

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.

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

24.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thrale, Hester i

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

28.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

29.

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

Montgomery, James

30.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

31.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

32.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

34.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

35.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

36.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Macdonald, George

39.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

40.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.