Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lee, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Lucan, F. L.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

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

11.

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

Marvell, Andrew

12.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

13.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

14.

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

Palmerston, Lord

15.

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

Publilius Syrus

16.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

17.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

18.

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

Dickinson, Emily

19.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

20.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

22.

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.

23.

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

Bible

24.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

25.

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

George Burns

26.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

27.

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

28.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

29.

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

Eliot, George

30.

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

Pamela Ribon

31.

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

Bagnold, Enid

32.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

33.

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

Heidegger, Martin

34.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

35.

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

36.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

37.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

38.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

39.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

40.

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

41.

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

Ken, Thomas

42.

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

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

44.

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

Miller, Joaquin

45.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

46.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

48.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

49.

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

50.

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

Johnny Carson