Motivational Quotes

Death

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Death

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

Euripides

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

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Charles II

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Macarthur, Douglas

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

Marvell, Andrew

12.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

13.

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

Bacon, Francis

14.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

15.

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

Lucan, F. L.

16.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

17.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

18.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

19.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

20.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

21.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

22.

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

Fromm, Erich

23.

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

Butler, Samuel

24.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

25.

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

Byron, Lord

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

30.

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.

31.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

32.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

33.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

34.

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

Milton, John

35.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

37.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

38.

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

Oscar Wilde

39.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

40.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

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

42.

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

Keats, John

43.

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

Plato

44.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

47.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

48.

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

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The fear of death is worse than death.