Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plato

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

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Hermes, Georg

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

Auerbach, Red

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

10.

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

Cocteau, Jean

11.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

12.

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

Craig Volk

13.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

16.

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.

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

18.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

19.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

20.

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

Miller, Joaquin

21.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

25.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Berra, Yogi

27.

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

28.

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

Cocteau, Jean

29.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

30.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

31.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

32.

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

David Assael

33.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

34.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

35.

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

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Butler, Samuel

40.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

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

Lucan, F. L.