Motivational Quotes

Death

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Death

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sophocles

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

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

10.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

11.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

12.

'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

13.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

15.

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

Pamela Ribon

16.

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

Craig Volk

17.

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

18.

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

Aaron McGruder

19.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

23.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

24.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

25.

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

26.

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

Allen, Woody

27.

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

Dryden, John

28.

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

29.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

30.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

38.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

39.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

40.

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