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

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Young, Edward

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.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

10.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

11.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

12.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

13.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Thrale, Hester i

16.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

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

Montgomery, James

18.

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

Craig Volk

19.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

20.

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

Keats, John

21.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

22.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

24.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

25.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

27.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

30.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

31.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

32.

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

33.

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

George Burns

34.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

36.

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

Cocteau, Jean

37.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

38.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

39.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

40.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

41.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

43.

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

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

48.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.