Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Fromm, Erich

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Mitford, William

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

10.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

11.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

12.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

13.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

14.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

15.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

16.

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

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Farber, Dave

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

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.

21.

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

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.

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

24.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

25.

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

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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.

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

Montgomery, James

28.

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

Cocteau, Jean

29.

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

30.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

31.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

32.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

34.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

37.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

38.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

39.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

40.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

John Scalzi

42.

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

Becht, Ben

44.

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

Woody Allen

45.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

48.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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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