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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
- Thrale, Hester i
Death Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Death

1.
He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
Plautus, Titus Maccius

2.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Steve Jobs

3.
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

4.
Life is one of the most important causes of death.
Kocher, Gerhard

5.
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
Hook, Sydney

7.
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Berra, Yogi

8.
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
Montgomery, James

9.
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

10.
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, SĀ°ren

11.
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

12.
He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
Charles II

13.
I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.
Hugh Elliott

14.
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

15.
Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.
William Shakespeare

16.
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
Thrale, Hester i

17.
I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
Allen, Woody

18.
The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
Foster, John W.

19.
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
Milton, John

20.
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
Hendrix, Jimi

21.
I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
Edith Sitwell

22.
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Darrow, Clarence

23.
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

24.
When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
Keats, John

25.
Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.
Bright, Grant M.

26.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Cervantes, Miguel De

27.
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

28.
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.

29.
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

30.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Bacon, Francis

31.
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

32.
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

33.
Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

34.
We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
Farber, Dave

35.
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Franklin, Benjamin

36.
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen

37.
I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.
Bardot, Brigitte

38.
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.

39.
And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
Eliot, T. S.

40.
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
Huxley, Aldous

41.
Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.
Marx, Groucho

42.
Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.
Bayly, Joseph

43.
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

44.
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
Hazlitt, William

45.
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

46.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
Mann, Thomas

47.
Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!
Matt Frewer

48.
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
David Assael

49.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
Maugham, W. Somerset

50.
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Hesse, Hermann


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