Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Death

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Buffett, Jimmy

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Barker, Clive

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

George Burns

10.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

11.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

12.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

13.

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

Edith Sitwell

14.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

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

Chandler, Raymond

16.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

19.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

Dickinson, Emily

21.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

22.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

23.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

24.

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

25.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

26.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

27.

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

28.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

29.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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

31.

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

32.

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

Dryden, John

33.

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

34.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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

38.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

41.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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.

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Bible

45.

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Epictetus

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

49.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb