Motivational Quotes

Death

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

- Melville, Jean-Pierre

Best Quotes about Death

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Bhagavad Gita

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Duffecy, James

10.

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

Charles II

11.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

13.

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

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Horace

19.

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

20.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

22.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

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

Bryant, William C.

24.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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'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

30.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

32.

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

33.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

36.

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

37.

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

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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

39.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.