Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Johnny Carson

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

Epicurus

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

10.

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

Duffecy, James

11.

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

A. Sachs

12.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

13.

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

14.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

15.

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

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

Ken, Thomas

18.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

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

Butler, Samuel

20.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

21.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

23.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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.

27.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

29.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

30.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

31.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

33.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

34.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Young, Edward

38.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

39.

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

Diderot, Denis

40.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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