Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

William Shakespeare

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

10.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

14.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

15.

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

Bacon, Francis

16.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

17.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

18.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

19.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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

21.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

23.

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

Randy K. Milholland

24.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

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

26.

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

Woody Allen

27.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

28.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

29.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

30.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

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

Frost, Robert

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Cocteau, Jean

36.

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

37.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

38.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Euripides

42.

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

43.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

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

Plato

46.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

47.

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

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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

49.

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

Greene, Graham

50.

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

Lee, Nathaniel