Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Death

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Montgomery, James

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Samuel Goldwyn

10.

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

11.

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

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Diderot, Denis

13.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

15.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

17.

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

Bright, Grant M.

18.

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

Ken, Thomas

19.

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

Charles II

20.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

21.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

22.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

23.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

25.

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

George Burns

26.

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

27.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

28.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

30.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

31.

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

Stephanie Klein

32.

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

Duffecy, James

33.

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

Allen, Woody

34.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

38.

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

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

40.

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

41.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

42.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

44.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

45.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

48.

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

49.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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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