Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Keats, John

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

10.

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

11.

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

Gide, Andre

12.

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

13.

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

14.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

15.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

16.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

18.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

19.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

20.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

21.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

22.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

23.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

24.

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

25.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

26.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

27.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

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

Darrow, Clarence

29.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

35.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

36.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

37.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

38.

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

39.

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

40.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

41.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

42.

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

Woody Allen

43.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

44.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

45.

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.

46.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

47.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

48.

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

49.

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

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

Woody Allen