Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Havner, Vance

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

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

Donne, John

11.

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

12.

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

13.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

14.

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

Keats, John

15.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

16.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

19.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

20.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

22.

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

Bayly, Joseph

23.

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

24.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

25.

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

26.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

27.

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

28.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

29.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

30.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

32.

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

Greene, Graham

33.

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

Forster, Edward M.

34.

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

35.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

36.

'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

37.

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

Randy K. Milholland

38.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

39.

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

40.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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.

43.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

44.

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

Eliot, George

45.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

47.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

49.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

La Bruyere, Jean De