Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

10.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Camus, Albert

12.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

13.

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

14.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

15.

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

Dryden, John

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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

17.

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

Bayly, Joseph

18.

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

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

Fielding, Henry

20.

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

21.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

22.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

23.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

24.

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

25.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Johnny Carson

28.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

29.

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

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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

31.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

Gray, Thomas

34.

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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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

36.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

37.

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

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

39.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

40.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

42.

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

Matt Frewer

43.

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

Canetti, Elias

44.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

45.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

46.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

47.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

48.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

49.

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

50.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive