Motivational Quotes

Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Bible

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Bronte, Emily

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

John Scalzi

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

12.

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

13.

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

Johnny Carson

14.

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

Marvell, Andrew

15.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

17.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

18.

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

Horace

19.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

20.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

21.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Pamela Ribon

25.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

26.

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

Foster, John W.

27.

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

Beaumont, Francis

28.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

29.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

30.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

34.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

35.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

36.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Ken, Thomas

40.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

42.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

43.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

44.

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

Woody Allen

45.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

46.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

47.

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

48.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

49.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

50.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De