Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Death

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Gray, Thomas

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

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

Young, Edward

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

W. Somerset Maugham

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

11.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

13.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

14.

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

Donne, John

15.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

17.

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

Milton, John

18.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

19.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

20.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

21.

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

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

23.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

24.

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

Charles II

25.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

26.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

27.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

28.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

29.

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

30.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

31.

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

Randy K. Milholland

32.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

33.

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

34.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

38.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

39.

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

40.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

41.

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.

42.

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

Allen, Woody

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

46.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

47.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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