Motivational Quotes

Death

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Death

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Gray, Thomas

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

13.

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

Edith Sitwell

14.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

15.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

16.

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

17.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

18.

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

Marvell, Andrew

19.

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

Mann, Thomas

20.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Publilius Syrus

25.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

26.

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

Greene, Graham

27.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

28.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

29.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

30.

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

Sophocles

31.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

32.

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

33.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

34.

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

Oscar Wilde

35.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

36.

'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

37.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

38.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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 a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

41.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

43.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

44.

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

45.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

46.

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

47.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

48.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

49.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.