Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Bible

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hermes, Georg

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Allen, Woody

10.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

11.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Matt Frewer

13.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

14.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

15.

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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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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

18.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

19.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

20.

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

Bacon, Francis

21.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

22.

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

23.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

25.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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.

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

28.

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

29.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

30.

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

Dryden, John

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

33.

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

34.

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

Palmerston, Lord

35.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

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

Auden, W. H.

37.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

39.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

41.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

43.

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

Bhagavad Gita

44.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

45.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

46.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

47.

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

48.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius