Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Death

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Miller, Joaquin

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

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.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Chandler, Raymond

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

11.

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

Cocteau, Jean

12.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

13.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

14.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

15.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

16.

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

Barker, Clive

17.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

19.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

20.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

22.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

23.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

24.

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

Bayly, Joseph

25.

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

26.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

27.

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

Darrow, Clarence

28.

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

Craig Volk

29.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

30.

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

Auerbach, Red

31.

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

32.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

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

Plato

34.

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.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

35.

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

36.

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

Plato

37.

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

Craig Volk

38.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

39.

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

Charles II

40.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

41.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

42.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Auden, W. H.

46.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

47.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

48.

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

49.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

50.

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

Butler, Samuel