Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Montgomery, James

Best Quotes about Death

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.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Foster, John W.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

10.

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

Horace

11.

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

Milton, John

12.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

13.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

15.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Lowell, James Russell

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Fielding, Henry

22.

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

Young, Edward

23.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

24.

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

Beaumont, Francis

25.

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

Dickinson, Emily

26.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

27.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

28.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

29.

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

30.

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

Greene, Graham

31.

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

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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

33.

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

Eliot, George

34.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

35.

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

36.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

37.

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

Bryant, William C.

38.

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

Bright, Grant M.

39.

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

Montgomery, James

40.

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

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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

42.

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

43.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

44.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

45.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

46.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

47.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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.