Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Sophocles

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Allen, Woody

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

Woody Allen

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

William Shakespeare

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

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

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

Young, Edward

10.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

11.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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

14.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

17.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

18.

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

Woody Allen

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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

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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

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hubbard, Kin

25.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

26.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

28.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

29.

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

Craig Volk

30.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Canetti, Elias

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

36.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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

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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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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

41.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

42.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

43.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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

45.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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

49.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene