Motivational Quotes

Death

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Death

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Epictetus

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

10.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

11.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

12.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

13.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

15.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Camus, Albert

17.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

18.

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

19.

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

Bible

21.

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

22.

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

Luther, Martin

23.

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

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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

25.

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

Edith Sitwell

26.

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

27.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

28.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

32.

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

33.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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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

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

38.

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

39.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

41.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

42.

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

Lucan, F. L.

43.

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

Dryden, John

44.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

45.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

46.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

47.

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

48.

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

Bayly, Joseph

49.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Allen, Woody