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

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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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

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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.

13.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

17.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

18.

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

Palmerston, Lord

19.

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

Matt Frewer

20.

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

21.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

23.

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

David Assael

24.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

25.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

26.

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

27.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

28.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

29.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

30.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

31.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

32.

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

33.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

38.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

40.

'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

41.

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

Duffecy, James

42.

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

Pamela Ribon

43.

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

44.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

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

Bryant, William C.

46.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

47.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

48.

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

Fielding, Henry

49.

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

Epictetus

50.

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