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 worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

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

A. Sachs

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

10.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

11.

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

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

14.

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

Frida Kahlo

15.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

17.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Butler, Samuel

21.

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

Beaumont, Francis

22.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

Gide, Andre

24.

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

Camus, Albert

25.

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.

26.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

27.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

28.

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

29.

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]

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30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Fielding, Henry

33.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

34.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

35.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

36.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

37.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

38.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

39.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

40.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

41.

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

42.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

43.

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

44.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

45.

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

Randy K. Milholland

46.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

47.

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

Allen, Woody

48.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

49.

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

50.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John