Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Death

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Bible

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Gide, Andre

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

10.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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.

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

Ken, Thomas

13.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

14.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

15.

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

16.

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

Barker, Clive

17.

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

Byron, Lord

18.

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

Bryant, William C.

19.

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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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

21.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

23.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

25.

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

Hoffer, Eric

26.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

29.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

30.

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

31.

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

Epicurus

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

35.

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

Gray, Thomas

36.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

37.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

38.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

39.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

41.

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

Pamela Ribon

42.

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

Horace

44.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

46.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

47.

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

Butler, Samuel

48.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.