Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bible

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Auden, W. H.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

12.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

13.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

14.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

15.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

17.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

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

Bayly, Joseph

20.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

21.

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

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

25.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

27.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

32.

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.

33.

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

Charles II

34.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

35.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

37.

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

Gide, Andre

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Macdonald, George

41.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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

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

Canetti, Elias

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Allen, Woody

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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

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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