Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

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

Auden, W. H.

11.

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

12.

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

Cocteau, Jean

13.

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

Farber, Dave

14.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Oscar Wilde

16.

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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17.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

18.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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19.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

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

22.

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

23.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

24.

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

Keats, John

25.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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26.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

27.

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

28.

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

Darrow, Clarence

29.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

30.

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

Marvell, Andrew

31.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

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.

33.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

34.

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

Hermes, Georg

35.

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

Ann Radcliffe

36.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

37.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

38.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

Euripides

40.

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

41.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

42.

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

Donne, John

43.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.