Motivational Quotes

Death

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bacon, Francis

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Woody Allen

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

10.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

11.

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

Bhagavad Gita

12.

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

Young, Edward

13.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

14.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

15.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

17.

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

Camus, Albert

18.

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

Bagnold, Enid

19.

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

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

23.

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

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

Dryden, John

25.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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.

27.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

28.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

29.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

30.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

31.

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

Allen, Woody

32.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Bright, Grant M.

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

39.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Greene, Graham

42.

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

Plato

43.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

47.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

48.

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

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

Plato

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

Macarthur, Douglas