Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Marvell, Andrew

Best Quotes about Death

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

Foster, John W.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Bacon, Francis

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

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

Montgomery, James

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

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Ken, Thomas

10.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Bright, Grant M.

12.

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

Plato

13.

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

Woody Allen

14.

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

Hermes, Georg

15.

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

Auerbach, Red

16.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

17.

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.

18.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

19.

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

Frida Kahlo

20.

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

21.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

23.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

24.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

25.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

26.

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

Milton, John

27.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

29.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

30.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

31.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

32.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

35.

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

36.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

37.

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

Keats, John

38.

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

39.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

40.

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

Allen, Woody

41.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

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

Beaumont, Francis

43.

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

44.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

45.

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

46.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

48.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

49.

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

50.

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