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

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Bhagavad Gita

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

10.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

13.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

17.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

18.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

19.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

20.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

21.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

22.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

23.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

24.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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.

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

27.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

29.

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

Charles II

30.

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

31.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

32.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

33.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

34.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Thrale, Hester i

36.

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

Woody Allen

37.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

38.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

39.

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

40.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

41.

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

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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

43.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

44.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

45.

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

Einstein, Albert

46.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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

49.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De