Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Allen, Woody

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Picabia, Francis

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

10.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

11.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

12.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

13.

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

Aaron McGruder

14.

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

Forster, Edward M.

15.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

16.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

17.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

18.

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.

19.

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

Donne, John

20.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

21.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

22.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

24.

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

Ann Radcliffe

25.

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

26.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

27.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

28.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Gide, Andre

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

36.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

38.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

39.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

42.

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

Cocteau, Jean

43.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

44.

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

45.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

46.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

47.

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

Bayly, Joseph

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.