Motivational Quotes

Death

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

- Gabrielle Zevin

Best Quotes about Death

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Plato

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

10.

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

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

Frida Kahlo

14.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

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

Ann Radcliffe

17.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

18.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

20.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

21.

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

Auden, W. H.

22.

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

John Scalzi

23.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

26.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

27.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

28.

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

29.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

30.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

31.

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

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

33.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

39.

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

Berra, Yogi

40.

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

Donne, John

41.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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