Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Charles II

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Auerbach, Red

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Lee, Nathaniel

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

10.

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

11.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

12.

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

Horace

13.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

14.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

15.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

18.

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

19.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

20.

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

21.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

22.

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

23.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

25.

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

Bryant, William C.

26.

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

27.

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

Barker, Clive

28.

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

29.

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

Bible

30.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

32.

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

Dickinson, Emily

33.

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

Bright, Grant M.

34.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

35.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

36.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

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

Greene, Graham

38.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

40.

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

41.

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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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.