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

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

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Montgomery, James

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Aurelius, Marcus

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

11.

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

Bryant, William C.

12.

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

13.

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

Craig Volk

14.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

18.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

19.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Becht, Ben

21.

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.

22.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

25.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

26.

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

Oscar Wilde

27.

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

Carson, Johnny

28.

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

Epicurus

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

30.

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

Chandler, Raymond

31.

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

32.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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

34.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

35.

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.

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

37.

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

Butler, Samuel

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

41.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

42.

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

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

45.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

47.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

48.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bible

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle