Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Dickinson, Emily

10.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

11.

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

12.

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

Fielding, Henry

13.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

Camus, Albert

15.

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

16.

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

Bayly, Joseph

17.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

18.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

19.

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

20.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

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

Hazlitt, William

23.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

24.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

25.

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

Bagnold, Enid

26.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

27.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

29.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

30.

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

31.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

33.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

George Burns

35.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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

37.

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

Cocteau, Jean

38.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

39.

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

40.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

41.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

42.

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

Bronte, Emily

43.

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

Diderot, Denis

44.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

45.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

46.

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

47.

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

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

49.

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

Craig Volk

50.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne