Motivational Quotes

Death

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Horace

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

Donne, John

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

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

Montgomery, James

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

10.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

11.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

12.

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

Becht, Ben

13.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

14.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

15.

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

Lowell, James Russell

16.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

17.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

19.

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

20.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

21.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

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

Berra, Yogi

23.

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

24.

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

Young, Edward

25.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

26.

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

27.

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

Ken, Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

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

31.

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

32.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

33.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

34.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

35.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

36.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

37.

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

Butler, Samuel

38.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

39.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

40.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

41.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

42.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

43.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

44.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

45.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

46.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

48.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

49.

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

Fielding, Henry

50.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.