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

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

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

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

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

10.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

11.

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

Bagnold, Enid

12.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

13.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

16.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

19.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

20.

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

Chandler, Raymond

21.

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

Sophocles

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

25.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

26.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

27.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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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

30.

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

31.

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

Diderot, Denis

32.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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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

35.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

36.

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

Fielding, Henry

37.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

38.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Greene, Graham

40.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

41.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

42.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

44.

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

Bright, Grant M.

45.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

47.

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

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

Allen, Woody

49.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid