Motivational Quotes

Death

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

1.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

2.

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

Heidegger, Martin

3.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

5.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

6.

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

Beaumont, Francis

7.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

8.

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

Dickinson, Emily

9.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

10.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

13.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

14.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

15.

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.

16.

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

Keats, John

17.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

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

Addison, Joseph

22.

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

23.

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

Picabia, Francis

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.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

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

Young, Edward

27.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

28.

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

Forster, Edward M.

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

32.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

33.

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

34.

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

Frost, Robert

35.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

36.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

37.

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

Gray, Thomas

38.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

39.

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

Publilius Syrus

40.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

41.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

42.

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