Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Ken, Thomas

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Allen, Woody

10.

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

11.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

12.

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

Bagnold, Enid

13.

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

Woody Allen

14.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

15.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

16.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

17.

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

Hubbard, Kin

18.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

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

Dryden, John

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Fielding, Henry

23.

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

24.

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

Gide, Andre

25.

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

26.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

27.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

28.

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

29.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

30.

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

Matt Frewer

31.

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

32.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

33.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

35.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

38.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

40.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

41.

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.

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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

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

44.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

46.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

47.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

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

Carson, Johnny

49.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Epicurus