Motivational Quotes

Death

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

- Lee, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

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

Butler, Samuel

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

10.

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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11.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

12.

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

Marvell, Andrew

13.

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

Auden, W. H.

14.

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

15.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

16.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

17.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

18.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

19.

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

Butler, Samuel

20.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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21.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

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

Ken, Thomas

23.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

25.

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

Palmerston, Lord

26.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

27.

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

28.

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

Johnny Carson

29.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

30.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

34.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

35.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

36.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

38.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

39.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

40.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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.

42.

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

Charles II

43.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

44.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

45.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

46.

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

Bright, Grant M.

47.

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

Cocteau, Jean

48.

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

49.

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