Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Matt Frewer

Best Quotes about Death

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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 fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Bryant, William C.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

10.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

11.

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

12.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

13.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

14.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Hoffer, Eric

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

18.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

19.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

21.

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

22.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

24.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

25.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

26.

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

27.

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

Lowell, James Russell

28.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

29.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

30.

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

Bronte, Emily

31.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

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

Randy K. Milholland

35.

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.

36.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

37.

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

Marvell, Andrew

38.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

43.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

44.

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

Publilius Syrus

45.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

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

Charles II

47.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

48.

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

Auerbach, Red

49.

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

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

Canetti, Elias