Motivational Quotes

Death

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

- Craig Volk

Best Quotes about Death

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Fielding, Henry

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Carson, Johnny

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Foster, John W.

10.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

12.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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'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

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Ken, Thomas

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Byron, Lord

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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 golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Woody Allen

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

Euripides

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Eliot, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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