Motivational Quotes

Death

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Ann Radcliffe

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

10.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

11.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

12.

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

Picabia, Francis

13.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

14.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Matt Frewer

17.

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

Butler, Samuel

18.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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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

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

21.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

22.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

23.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

24.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

25.

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

Horace

26.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

27.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

28.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

29.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

30.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

31.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

32.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Allen, Woody

37.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

39.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

40.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

42.

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

43.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

44.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

45.

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

46.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

47.

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

Farber, Dave

48.

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

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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.