Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Craig Volk

Best Quotes about Death

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Randy K. Milholland

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Greene, Graham

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

11.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

12.

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

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Marvell, Andrew

15.

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

16.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Dickinson, Emily

19.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

24.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

25.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

27.

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

28.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

29.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

30.

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

Mitford, William

31.

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

Addison, Joseph

32.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

33.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

34.

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

35.

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

Woody Allen

36.

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

37.

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

38.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

39.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

40.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

41.

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

Euripides

42.

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

43.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

44.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

45.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

46.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

48.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

49.

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

50.

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