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

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Bible

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Hook, Sydney

10.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

11.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

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

14.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

15.

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

Mann, Thomas

16.

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

Gide, Andre

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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.

19.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

20.

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

Allen, Woody

21.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

23.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

24.

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

Charles II

25.

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

26.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

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

Camus, Albert

28.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

29.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

30.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

32.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

33.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

35.

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

36.

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

Berra, Yogi

37.

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

38.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

39.

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

Horace

40.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

41.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

42.

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

Lowell, James Russell

43.

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

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

46.

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

47.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

48.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

50.

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