Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Death

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

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

Eliot, George

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

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

Bible

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

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Woody Allen

10.

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

11.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

12.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

13.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

14.

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

15.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

16.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

17.

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

18.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

19.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

20.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

21.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

22.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

23.

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

24.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

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

27.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

28.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

29.

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

Luther, Martin

30.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

37.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

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

39.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

40.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

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

42.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

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

Dryden, John

44.

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

Horace

45.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

46.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

48.

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

49.

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

Allen, Woody

50.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De