Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Beaumont, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Gide, Andre

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

Dryden, John

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

Butler, Samuel

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Stephanie Klein

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Milton, John

12.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Horace

16.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Diderot, Denis

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

20.

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

Aaron McGruder

21.

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

Canetti, Elias

22.

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

23.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Donne, John

25.

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

Picabia, Francis

26.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

27.

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

Allen, Woody

28.

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

Craig Volk

29.

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

Frida Kahlo

30.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

31.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

32.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

33.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

35.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

36.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

37.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

38.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

39.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

40.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

41.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

42.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

43.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

45.

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

Hubbard, Kin

46.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

47.

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

48.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

49.

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

Edith Sitwell

50.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham