Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Craig Volk

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Montgomery, James

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

10.

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

11.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

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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

14.

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

John Scalzi

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.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

17.

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

18.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

19.

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

Hermes, Georg

20.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

21.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

22.

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.

23.

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

Lucan, F. L.

24.

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

Bertolt Brecht

25.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

27.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

29.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

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

Keats, John

31.

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

Heidegger, Martin

32.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

33.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

36.

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

37.

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

Addison, Joseph

38.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

39.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

44.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

45.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

46.

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