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

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

Camus, Albert

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Epictetus

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

Havner, Vance

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

Randy K. Milholland

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Butler, Samuel

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

10.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

11.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

12.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Dyer, Wayne

16.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

17.

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

18.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

19.

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

20.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

21.

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

22.

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

Randy K. Milholland

23.

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

George Burns

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

25.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

26.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

28.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

29.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

30.

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

Beaumont, Francis

31.

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

32.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

34.

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

Foster, John W.

35.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

36.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

37.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

38.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

39.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

40.

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

Euripides

41.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

44.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

45.

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

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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

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

49.

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

Farber, Dave

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph