Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Death

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.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Camus, Albert

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Carson, Johnny

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

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

11.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

12.

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

13.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

14.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

15.

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

Dickinson, Emily

16.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

17.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

18.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

20.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

22.

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.

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Young, Edward

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

28.

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.

29.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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

31.

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

A. Sachs

32.

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

33.

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

Cocteau, Jean

34.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

36.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

38.

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

Bagnold, Enid

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

40.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

41.

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

Bright, Grant M.

42.

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

Beaumont, Francis

43.

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

44.

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

45.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.