Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Death

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Horace

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

10.

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

Ken, Thomas

11.

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

Woody Allen

12.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

13.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

15.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

16.

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

17.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

18.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

23.

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

24.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Randy K. Milholland

27.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

28.

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

Allen, Woody

29.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

31.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

32.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

34.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

35.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

36.

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

Horace

37.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

38.

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

Craig Volk

39.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

Edith Sitwell

41.

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

42.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

44.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

45.

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

Hazlitt, William

46.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

47.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

48.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

49.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

50.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George