Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Young, Edward

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

Fromm, Erich

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

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

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Byron, Lord

10.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

11.

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

12.

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

Milton, John

13.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

14.

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.

15.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

17.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

19.

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

Plato

20.

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

21.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

22.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

23.

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

Publilius Syrus

24.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

26.

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

Allen, Woody

27.

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

Fielding, Henry

28.

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

Marvell, Andrew

29.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

30.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

31.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

34.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

36.

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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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.

38.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

39.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

40.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

41.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

42.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

43.

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

44.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

45.

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

Dryden, John

46.

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

Donne, John

47.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

50.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus