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

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

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

Horace

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

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

Keats, John

11.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

12.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

13.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

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

Byron, Lord

15.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

16.

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

Picabia, Francis

17.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

18.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

19.

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]

Bible

20.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

21.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

22.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

24.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

25.

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

Montgomery, James

26.

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

27.

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

Fielding, Henry

28.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

29.

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

30.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

32.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

33.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

34.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

35.

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

Aaron McGruder

36.

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

37.

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

Duffecy, James

38.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

39.

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

Ken, Thomas

40.

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