Motivational Quotes

Death

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Montgomery, James

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

10.

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

Barker, Clive

11.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

13.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

14.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

15.

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

Horace

16.

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

Berra, Yogi

17.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Camus, Albert

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Keats, John

22.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Hazlitt, William

27.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

Johnny Carson

29.

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

30.

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

Plato

31.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

32.

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.

33.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

34.

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

Woody Allen

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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

37.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

38.

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

39.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

40.

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

Woody Allen

41.

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.

42.

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

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

44.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

45.

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

46.

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

47.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

48.

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

49.

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