Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bertolt Brecht

Best Quotes about Death

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Lee, Nathaniel

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Beaumont, Francis

10.

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

Greene, Graham

11.

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

Frost, Robert

12.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

13.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

14.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

15.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

16.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

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

Gide, Andre

18.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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.

22.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

23.

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

24.

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

25.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

28.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

29.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

30.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

31.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

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

Randy K. Milholland

35.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

36.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

38.

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

Donne, John

39.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Allen, Woody

41.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

44.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

45.

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

Havner, Vance

46.

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

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See in what peace a Christian can die.