Motivational Quotes

Death

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Death

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

Randy K. Milholland

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

10.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

11.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

12.

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

Woody Allen

13.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

15.

Hammarskjold, Dag

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

20.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

21.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

John Scalzi

23.

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

Beaumont, Francis

24.

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

25.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

26.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

27.

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

28.

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

Horace

29.

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

30.

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

Diderot, Denis

31.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

32.

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

33.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

36.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

37.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

38.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

39.

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

40.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

41.

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

42.

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

Keats, John

43.

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

44.

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

Hook, Sydney

45.

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

46.

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

Gray, Thomas

47.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

48.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

49.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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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.