Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

2.

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

Butler, Samuel

3.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

4.

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

Dryden, John

5.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

6.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

7.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

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

13.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

15.

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

16.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

17.

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

Publilius Syrus

18.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

19.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

20.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Bible

22.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

23.

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

Oscar Wilde

24.

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

Lowell, James Russell

25.

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

Donne, John

26.

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

27.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

28.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

29.

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.

30.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

32.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

33.

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

Bayly, Joseph

34.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

35.

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

36.

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

38.

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

Becht, Ben

39.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.