Motivational Quotes

Death

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Bright, Grant M.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

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

12.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

15.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

16.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

18.

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

Lowell, James Russell

19.

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

Barker, Clive

20.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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'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

23.

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

Montgomery, James

24.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

25.

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

26.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

27.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

31.

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

32.

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

Diderot, Denis

33.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

34.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

35.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Cocteau, Jean

39.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

40.

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

41.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

42.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

43.

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

Matt Frewer

44.

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

Publilius Syrus

45.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

46.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

47.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

48.

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

49.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

50.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles