Motivational Quotes

Death

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Death

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.

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

Ken, Thomas

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

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

Diderot, Denis

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

10.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

14.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

15.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

17.

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

18.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

19.

'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

20.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Dryden, John

22.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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.

27.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

28.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

29.

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

George Burns

30.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

31.

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

Cocteau, Jean

32.

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

33.

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

Allen, Woody

34.

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

Bryant, William C.

35.

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

Craig Volk

36.

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

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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

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

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

42.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

43.

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

44.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

46.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

47.

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

48.

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

49.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

50.

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

Charles II