Motivational Quotes

Death

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bronte, Emily

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

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Woody Allen

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Ann Radcliffe

10.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

11.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

12.

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

Canetti, Elias

13.

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

Bhagavad Gita

14.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

16.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

17.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

18.

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

19.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

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

Hubbard, Kin

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

23.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

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

Gide, Andre

25.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

26.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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.

30.

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

Palmerston, Lord

31.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

33.

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.

34.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

35.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

37.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

38.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

39.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

40.

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

Bible

41.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

43.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

44.

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

45.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

46.

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

47.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

48.

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

Thrale, Hester i

49.

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

Allen, Woody

50.

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