Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Publilius Syrus

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Fielding, Henry

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

11.

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

Miller, Joaquin

12.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

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

Charles II

19.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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

Aaron McGruder

22.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

23.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

27.

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

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

Horace

29.

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

A. Sachs

30.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

31.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

33.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

34.

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

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

Byron, Lord

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

37.

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

Keats, John

38.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

39.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

40.

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

Mann, Thomas

41.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

43.

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

Chandler, Raymond

44.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

45.

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.

46.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

47.

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

John Scalzi