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

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

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Bible

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

10.

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

11.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

12.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

13.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

14.

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

Woody Allen

15.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

16.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Bible

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

21.

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

Camus, Albert

22.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

23.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

24.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

25.

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

26.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

28.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

29.

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

30.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

32.

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

33.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

34.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

35.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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

37.

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

Berra, Yogi

38.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

42.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

44.

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

Keats, John

45.

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

46.

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

John Scalzi

47.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Bayly, Joseph

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond