Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bagnold, Enid

Best Quotes about Death

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

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Gray, Thomas

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Frida Kahlo

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

10.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

11.

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

Thrale, Hester i

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

13.

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

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.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

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

Horace

17.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

18.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

19.

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

Ann Radcliffe

20.

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

Craig Volk

21.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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

23.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

24.

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

Allen, Woody

25.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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.

28.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

29.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

30.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

31.

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

Butler, Samuel

32.

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

Bagnold, Enid

33.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

34.

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

Edith Sitwell

35.

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

36.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

38.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

39.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

40.

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

41.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

45.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

46.

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

47.

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

Cocteau, Jean

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard