Motivational Quotes

Death

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Death

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Greene, Graham

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

11.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

12.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

13.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

14.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

15.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

18.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

19.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

21.

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

Plato

22.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

23.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

24.

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

25.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Dryden, John

27.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

28.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

29.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

31.

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

Frida Kahlo

32.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

33.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

38.

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

Bible

39.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

40.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

41.

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

42.

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

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

44.

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.

45.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

46.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

47.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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.