Motivational Quotes

Death

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bright, Grant M.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Samuel Goldwyn

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

10.

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

Woody Allen

11.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

13.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

14.

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

Milton, John

15.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

16.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

17.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

19.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

20.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

21.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

23.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

24.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

25.

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

Mitford, William

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

27.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

28.

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

Craig Volk

29.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

30.

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

Addison, Joseph

31.

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

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

35.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

37.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

40.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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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

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

Bible

43.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

44.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

45.

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

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

48.

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

49.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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