Motivational Quotes

Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Death

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Barker, Clive

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

Bayly, Joseph

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Oscar Wilde

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

11.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

12.

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

13.

'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

14.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

15.

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

Bayly, Joseph

16.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

17.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

18.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

19.

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

20.

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

21.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Montgomery, James

23.

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

24.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

27.

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

Butler, Samuel

28.

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

29.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Donne, John

32.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Pamela Ribon

34.

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

Mann, Thomas

35.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

40.

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

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

42.

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.

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

44.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

45.

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

Thrale, Hester i

46.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Canetti, Elias

48.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

49.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond