Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Death

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

Publilius Syrus

11.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

12.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

13.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

14.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

15.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

16.

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

Fielding, Henry

17.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

18.

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

19.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

20.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Sophocles

22.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

24.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

25.

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

Manilius, Marcus

26.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

28.

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

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

Camus, Albert

30.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

32.

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

George Burns

33.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

34.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

37.

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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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

39.

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

40.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

Publilius Syrus

42.

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

43.

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

Keats, John

44.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

45.

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

46.

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

47.

'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

48.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

49.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

50.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph