Motivational Quotes

Death

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Ken, Thomas

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

10.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

11.

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

Auden, W. H.

12.

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

13.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

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

Carson, Johnny

16.

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

17.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

18.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

19.

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

20.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

21.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

22.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

23.

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

24.

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

Allen, Woody

25.

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

26.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

29.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

30.

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

Luther, Martin

31.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

32.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

33.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

34.

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

35.

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

Havner, Vance

36.

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

37.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

39.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

40.

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

41.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

42.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

43.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

44.

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

Cocteau, Jean

45.

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

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46.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

48.

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

49.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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50.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain