Motivational Quotes

Death

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Death

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Craig Volk

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

10.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

11.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

12.

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

Epicurus

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Allen, Woody

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

21.

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

Keats, John

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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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

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

Mann, Thomas

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

33.

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

34.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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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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]

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39.

'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

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

Aaron McGruder

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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

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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.

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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

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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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

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat