Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Young, Edward

10.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

14.

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

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Greene, Graham

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

18.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

21.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

22.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

24.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

25.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

Bertolt Brecht

27.

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

28.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

29.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

30.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

Woody Allen

32.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

33.

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

Palmerston, Lord

34.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

35.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

38.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

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

Randy K. Milholland

40.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

41.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

42.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

43.

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

44.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

46.

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

47.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

48.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

49.

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

Butler, Samuel

50.

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.