Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Charles II

Best Quotes about Death

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Dryden, John

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

Horace

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

10.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

12.

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

Gray, Thomas

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.

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

15.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

16.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

17.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

18.

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

Ann Radcliffe

19.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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

21.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

22.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

23.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

24.

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

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Euripides

26.

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

Craig Volk

27.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

28.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

29.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

30.

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

31.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

32.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

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

Keats, John

34.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

36.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

37.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

38.

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

Bryant, William C.

39.

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

40.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

41.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

42.

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

43.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

46.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

47.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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

49.

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

Edith Sitwell

50.

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

Camus, Albert