Motivational Quotes

Death

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

10.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

11.

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

12.

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

14.

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

15.

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

Eliot, George

16.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

17.

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

Berra, Yogi

18.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

19.

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

Frida Kahlo

20.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

21.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

22.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

23.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

28.

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

Bright, Grant M.

29.

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

30.

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

Auden, W. H.

31.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

32.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

34.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

38.

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

Auerbach, Red

39.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

40.

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

Fielding, Henry

41.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

42.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

43.

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

Montgomery, James

44.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

45.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

46.

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.

47.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Lowell, James Russell

49.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Life is a loss of time.