Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Death

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Woody Allen

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

10.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

11.

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

Palmerston, Lord

12.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

13.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

14.

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

Bryant, William C.

15.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

16.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Gray, Thomas

19.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

20.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

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

Eliot, George

22.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

26.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

28.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Chandler, Raymond

30.

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

31.

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

Darrow, Clarence

32.

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

Ken, Thomas

33.

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

34.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Woody Allen

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

Young, Edward

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

40.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Randy K. Milholland

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