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

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

A. Sachs

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Craig Volk

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Lowell, James Russell

10.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

12.

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

Johnny Carson

13.

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

14.

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

Cocteau, Jean

15.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

17.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

20.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

21.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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

25.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

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

Bagnold, Enid

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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.

28.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

30.

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

31.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

32.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

34.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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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

37.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

38.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

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

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

Dryden, John

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