Motivational Quotes

Death

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Death

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Horace

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

12.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

13.

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

14.

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

Matt Frewer

15.

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

Bhagavad Gita

16.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

17.

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

Allen, Woody

18.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

19.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

20.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

21.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

22.

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

Bagnold, Enid

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

Young, Edward

25.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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

27.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

28.

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

29.

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

Craig Volk

30.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

31.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

32.

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

33.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

38.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

39.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

46.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

48.

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

Allen, Woody

49.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

50.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.