Motivational Quotes

Death

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

- Manilius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Death

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Ken, Thomas

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bryant, William C.

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

10.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

11.

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

12.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Plato

16.

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

17.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

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

Dryden, John

21.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

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

23.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

24.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

Dickinson, Emily

27.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

28.

'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

29.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

30.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

31.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

33.

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

34.

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

Bright, Grant M.

35.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

36.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

37.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

38.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

40.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.