Motivational Quotes

Death

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

- Haracourt, Edmond

Best Quotes about Death

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

Edith Sitwell

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Bacon, Francis

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

10.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

11.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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

14.

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

Matt Frewer

15.

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

Ann Radcliffe

16.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

17.

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

18.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

19.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

20.

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

Chandler, Raymond

21.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

22.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

24.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

25.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

26.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Fielding, Henry

28.

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

Foster, John W.

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.

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

Canetti, Elias

31.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

32.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

34.

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

George Burns

35.

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

36.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

37.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

40.

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

Barker, Clive

41.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

42.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

43.

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

44.

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

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

46.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

48.

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

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.