Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

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

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

10.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

11.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

12.

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

Donne, John

13.

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

Hermes, Georg

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

Eliot, George

17.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

18.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

20.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

21.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Palmerston, Lord

23.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

24.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

25.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

26.

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

27.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

28.

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

29.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

30.

'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

31.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

32.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

33.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

34.

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

Young, Edward

35.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

36.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

37.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

38.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

39.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

Oscar Wilde

41.

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

42.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

48.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

49.

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

50.

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