Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Gray, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bagnold, Enid

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

John Scalzi

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

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

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

10.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

Beaumont, Francis

12.

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

Horace

13.

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

14.

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

Greene, Graham

15.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

16.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

17.

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

18.

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

Manilius, Marcus

19.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

20.

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

21.

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

22.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

23.

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

Woody Allen

24.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

25.

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

26.

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

27.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

28.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

29.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

30.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

31.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

32.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

33.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

34.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

35.

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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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

37.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

38.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

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.

40.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

41.

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

42.

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

Dryden, John

43.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

44.

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

Camus, Albert

45.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

46.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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]

Bible

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

50.

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

Picabia, Francis