Motivational Quotes

Death

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Butler, Samuel

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

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

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

Mitford, William

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Craig Volk

10.

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

11.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

15.

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

Hoffer, Eric

16.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

17.

'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

18.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

19.

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

Bertolt Brecht

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

24.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

25.

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.

26.

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

Duffecy, James

27.

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

Barker, Clive

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

30.

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

Heidegger, Martin

31.

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

Butler, Samuel

32.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

33.

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

34.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

35.

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.

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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

37.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

38.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

39.

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

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

41.

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

Fielding, Henry

42.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

43.

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

Allen, Woody

44.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

45.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

50.

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

Haracourt, Edmond