Motivational Quotes

Death

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Macdonald, George

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

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

Barker, Clive

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

Lucan, F. L.

10.

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

11.

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

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

13.

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

14.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

15.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

16.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

17.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

18.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

24.

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

Plato

25.

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

Butler, Samuel

26.

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

Marvell, Andrew

27.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

28.

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

Canetti, Elias

29.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

31.

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

Bayly, Joseph

32.

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

Berra, Yogi

33.

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

34.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

35.

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

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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

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

38.

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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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

40.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

41.

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

Ann Radcliffe

42.

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

Oscar Wilde

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