Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Craig Volk

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

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

George Burns

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

Randy K. Milholland

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

10.

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

11.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

12.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

13.

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

14.

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

Horace

15.

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

16.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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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

18.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

22.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

23.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

24.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

25.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

26.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

28.

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

Bertolt Brecht

29.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

30.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

31.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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.

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

38.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

39.

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

Addison, Joseph

40.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

41.

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

Publilius Syrus

42.

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

Randy K. Milholland

43.

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

Gray, Thomas

44.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

45.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

46.

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

Marvell, Andrew

47.

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

Montgomery, James

48.

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

49.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.