Motivational Quotes

Death

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

- Osborne, John

Best Quotes about Death

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.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

'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

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

Publilius Syrus

11.

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

12.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

13.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

14.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

15.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

16.

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

17.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

18.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

20.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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

Hubbard, Kin

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

Randy K. Milholland

25.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

26.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Ken, Thomas

28.

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

Eliot, George

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.

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

Lowell, James Russell

31.

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

32.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

Keats, John

35.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

36.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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

38.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

39.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

Greene, Graham

42.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

43.

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

44.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

45.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

46.

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

47.

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

48.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

49.

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

50.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth