Motivational Quotes

Death

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

- Henley, William Ernest

Best Quotes about Death

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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]

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Miller, Joaquin

10.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Frida Kahlo

12.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

14.

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

15.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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

17.

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]

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18.

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

19.

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

Duffecy, James

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

24.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

25.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

26.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

27.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

28.

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

Young, Edward

29.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

34.

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

35.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Canetti, Elias

37.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

38.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

40.

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

41.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

43.

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

Bayly, Joseph

44.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

45.

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

46.

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

Keats, John

47.

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

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48.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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