Motivational Quotes

Death

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Craig Volk

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.

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

Byron, Lord

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Epicurus

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Addison, Joseph

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

10.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

11.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

15.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

16.

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

Gide, Andre

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

21.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bible

28.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

29.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

32.

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

Epicurus

33.

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

34.

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

Greene, Graham

35.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

36.

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

37.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

40.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

41.

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

Craig Volk

42.

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

43.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

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

45.

'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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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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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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

49.

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

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

Plato