Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Death

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

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

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Gide, Andre

10.

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

11.

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

Oscar Wilde

12.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

13.

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

Bronte, Emily

14.

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

15.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

16.

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

Randy K. Milholland

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

19.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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.

21.

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

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

23.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

24.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

27.

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

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.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Picabia, Francis

31.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

32.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

35.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

36.

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

37.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

38.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

40.

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

Byron, Lord

41.

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

42.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

43.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

44.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Bright, Grant M.

47.

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

John Scalzi

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.