Motivational Quotes

Death

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

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Best Quotes about Death

1.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

2.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

3.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

4.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

6.

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

Hubbard, Kin

7.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

8.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

9.

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

Stephanie Klein

10.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

11.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

12.

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

Edith Sitwell

13.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

15.

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

16.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

17.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

21.

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

Duffecy, James

22.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

23.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

24.

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

25.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

26.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

27.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

30.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

31.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

32.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

34.

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

35.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

36.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

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

Addison, Joseph

38.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

Fielding, Henry

40.

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

41.

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

Bayly, Joseph

42.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

43.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

44.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

45.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

46.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

47.

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

48.

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

Picabia, Francis

49.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

50.

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