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

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

George Burns

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

Hamilton, Hugh

10.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

11.

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

Mitford, William

12.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

13.

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

14.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

15.

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

16.

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

17.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

25.

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

Bayly, Joseph

26.

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

27.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

28.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

29.

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

John Scalzi

30.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

31.

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

Euripides

32.

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

Bagnold, Enid

33.

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

34.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

36.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

37.

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

38.

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

Beaumont, Francis

39.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

41.

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

Randy K. Milholland

42.

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

Duffecy, James

43.

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

44.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

45.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

48.

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

49.

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

Bacon, Francis

50.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De