Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lee, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Duffecy, James

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Luther, Martin

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

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

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

10.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

11.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

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

13.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

15.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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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

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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

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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.

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

20.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

22.

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

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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

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

Greene, Graham

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

27.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

28.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

29.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

30.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

31.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

35.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

36.

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

Frida Kahlo

37.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

38.

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.

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

41.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

42.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

43.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

44.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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

47.

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

Edith Sitwell

48.

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

George Burns

49.

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

Einstein, Albert

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift