Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Montgomery, James

Best Quotes about Death

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Nepos, Cornelius

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Mitford, William

10.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

11.

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

Ann Radcliffe

12.

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

Horace

13.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

14.

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

15.

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

Fromm, Erich

16.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

18.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

19.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

20.

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.

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

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

23.

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

Macdonald, George

24.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

25.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

26.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

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

Woody Allen

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

Darrow, Clarence

31.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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

34.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

35.

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

Bagnold, Enid

36.

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

Publilius Syrus

37.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

38.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

39.

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

40.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

41.

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

42.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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

44.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

45.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

46.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

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