Motivational Quotes

Death

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Keats, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

10.

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

11.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

12.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

13.

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

14.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

17.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

18.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

19.

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

Bayly, Joseph

20.

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

21.

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

Hoffer, Eric

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

24.

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

25.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

26.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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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.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

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

32.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

33.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

34.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

36.

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

Woody Allen

37.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

39.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

40.

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

Bacon, Francis

41.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

42.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Young, Edward

44.

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

Plato

45.

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

46.

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

Horace

47.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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

49.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward