Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Death

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.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

10.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

11.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

12.

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

13.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

15.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

22.

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

23.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

25.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

28.

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

Byron, Lord

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

31.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Fielding, Henry

33.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

35.

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

36.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

37.

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.

38.

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

Edith Sitwell

39.

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

40.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

41.

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

Bright, Grant M.

42.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.