Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Horace

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Aaron McGruder

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Horace

10.

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

Frida Kahlo

11.

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

12.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

13.

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

Cocteau, Jean

14.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

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

Keats, John

16.

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

17.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

18.

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

19.

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

Horace

20.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

21.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

23.

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

Lucan, F. L.

24.

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

Bible

25.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

26.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

28.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

29.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

30.

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

Hook, Sydney

31.

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

Heidegger, Martin

32.

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

Gray, Thomas

33.

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

34.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

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

Darrow, Clarence

38.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

39.

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

40.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

41.

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

42.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

43.

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

44.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

45.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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