Motivational Quotes

Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Bagnold, Enid

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Carson, Johnny

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

John Scalzi

11.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

12.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

13.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

14.

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

Ann Radcliffe

15.

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

Farber, Dave

16.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

17.

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

18.

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

19.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

20.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

21.

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

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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

23.

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

Cocteau, Jean

24.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

25.

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.

26.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

27.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

28.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

29.

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

Bright, Grant M.

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

'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

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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

33.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

34.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

35.

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

36.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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

38.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

39.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

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

Keats, John

41.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

43.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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.

46.

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

Bronte, Emily

47.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

48.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

49.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

50.

'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