Motivational Quotes

Death

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Samuel Goldwyn

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Euripides

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

10.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

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

12.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

13.

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

14.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

15.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

16.

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

Auerbach, Red

17.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

19.

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

Camus, Albert

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Byron, Lord

23.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

24.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

26.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

27.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

30.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

31.

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

32.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

34.

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

35.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

42.

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

Sophocles

43.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

44.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

45.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

46.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

47.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

48.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

49.

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

50.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe