Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Miller, Joaquin

Best Quotes about Death

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

Camus, Albert

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Hamilton, Hugh

10.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

11.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

12.

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

13.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

17.

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

Horace

18.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

19.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

20.

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

21.

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

Byron, Lord

22.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

24.

'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

25.

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

Pamela Ribon

26.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

27.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

31.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

32.

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

Carson, Johnny

33.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

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

Euripides

35.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

36.

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

Bright, Grant M.

37.

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

Berra, Yogi

38.

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

Gide, Andre

39.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

42.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

43.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

44.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

46.

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

Ken, Thomas

47.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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.