Motivational Quotes

Death

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

- Nepos, Cornelius

Best Quotes about Death

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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.

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

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

10.

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

11.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

12.

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

Fielding, Henry

13.

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

Young, Edward

14.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

15.

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

16.

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

Camus, Albert

17.

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

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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.

Arendt, Hannah

20.

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

Johnny Carson

21.

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

Addison, Joseph

22.

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

Foster, John W.

23.

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

24.

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

Butler, Samuel

25.

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

26.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

27.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

28.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

29.

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

Marvell, Andrew

30.

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

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

32.

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

Thrale, Hester i

33.

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

Plato

34.

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

Canetti, Elias

35.

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

Matt Frewer

36.

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

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

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

Bright, Grant M.

40.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

42.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

43.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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