Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Eliot, George

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

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

Barker, Clive

10.

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

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

Bible

12.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

14.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

15.

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

Sophocles

16.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

17.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

18.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

19.

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

20.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

21.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

22.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

25.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

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

Bright, Grant M.

28.

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

29.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

Allen, Woody

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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

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

Dryden, John

34.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

35.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

36.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

37.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

39.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

40.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

42.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

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

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

46.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

47.

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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!