Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Death

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.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Bronte, Emily

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Randy K. Milholland

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

10.

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

Fromm, Erich

11.

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

12.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

13.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

14.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

15.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

16.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

18.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

19.

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

Mann, Thomas

20.

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

Greene, Graham

21.

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

Sophocles

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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

23.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

26.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

27.

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

Bible

28.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

30.

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

Edith Sitwell

31.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

32.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

33.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

34.

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

35.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

36.

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

Montgomery, James

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

39.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

40.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

41.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

42.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

46.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

47.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

48.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

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

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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