Motivational Quotes

Death

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Edith Sitwell

10.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

11.

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

Allen, Woody

12.

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

Horace

13.

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

Greene, Graham

14.

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

15.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

16.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

17.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

20.

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

Stephanie Klein

21.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

22.

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

Epicurus

23.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Gide, Andre

27.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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.

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

Pamela Ribon

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

35.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

36.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

37.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

38.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

40.

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

Bertolt Brecht

41.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

42.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

43.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

44.

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

Canetti, Elias

45.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

46.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

47.

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

48.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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