Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Lucan, F. L.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Keats, John

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

13.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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

Young, Edward

15.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

16.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

17.

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

Forster, Edward M.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

21.

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

Canetti, Elias

22.

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

23.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

24.

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

Frida Kahlo

25.

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

26.

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

Barker, Clive

27.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

28.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

29.

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

Fielding, Henry

30.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

31.

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

Publilius Syrus

32.

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

33.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

34.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.