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

1.

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]

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2.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

3.

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

4.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

5.

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.

6.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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7.

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

8.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

9.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

10.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

11.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

12.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

14.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

15.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

16.

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

Luther, Martin

17.

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

Aaron McGruder

18.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

19.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

20.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

Miller, Joaquin

22.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

23.

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

Allen, Woody

24.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

25.

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

26.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

27.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

29.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

30.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

31.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

33.

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

34.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

35.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

36.

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

38.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

39.

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

40.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

41.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

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

Fielding, Henry

44.

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

Forster, Edward M.

45.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

46.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.