Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Death

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Allen, Woody

10.

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

Keats, John

11.

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

Heidegger, Martin

12.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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

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

Mitford, William

15.

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

16.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

17.

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

Dickinson, Emily

18.

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

19.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Ann Radcliffe

21.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

22.

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

Canetti, Elias

23.

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

Publilius Syrus

24.

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

Bacon, Francis

25.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

26.

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

Woody Allen

27.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

28.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

29.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Horace

32.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Auerbach, Red

35.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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

Fromm, Erich

39.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

42.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

44.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

45.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

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

Becht, Ben

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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

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

49.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold