Motivational Quotes

Death

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

- Gabrielle Zevin

Best Quotes about Death

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

10.

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

11.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

12.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

13.

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

14.

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

Euripides

15.

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

16.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

17.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

18.

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

Cocteau, Jean

19.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Hazlitt, William

21.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

22.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

23.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

24.

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

25.

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

Auerbach, Red

26.

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

Byron, Lord

27.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

32.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

33.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

34.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

35.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

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

Mann, Thomas

38.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

39.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

43.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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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

49.

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

50.

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