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

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Macarthur, Douglas

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

'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

10.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

11.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

12.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

14.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

15.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

16.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

17.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

18.

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

Greene, Graham

19.

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.

20.

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

Berra, Yogi

21.

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

John Scalzi

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

25.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

27.

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.

28.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

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

30.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

32.

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Fielding, Henry

34.

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

35.

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

Publilius Syrus

36.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

37.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

40.

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

Keats, John

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

43.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

46.

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

George Burns

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

48.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

49.

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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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody