Motivational Quotes

Death

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Allen, Woody

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Charles II

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

Camus, Albert

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

10.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

11.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

12.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

14.

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

Fielding, Henry

15.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

16.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

17.

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

Bright, Grant M.

18.

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

Edith Sitwell

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Bayly, Joseph

22.

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

Woody Allen

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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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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

25.

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

26.

'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

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

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

29.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Craig Volk

33.

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

Plato

34.

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

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bayly, Joseph

38.

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

Publilius Syrus

39.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

40.

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

Euripides

41.

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

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

43.

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

44.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

45.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

46.

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

Luther, Martin

47.

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.

48.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

50.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho