Motivational Quotes

Death

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Picabia, Francis

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Sophocles

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Macdonald, George

10.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

11.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

14.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

15.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

16.

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

17.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

18.

'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

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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.

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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

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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

22.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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

24.

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

Woody Allen

25.

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

Ken, Thomas

26.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

29.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

30.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

31.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

32.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Young, Edward

34.

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

Palmerston, Lord

35.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

36.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

37.

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

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

39.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

41.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

42.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

43.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

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

45.

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

Epictetus

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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.

48.

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

Keats, John

49.

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

50.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson