Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Duffecy, James

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Keats, John

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Oscar Wilde

15.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

16.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

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

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

Foster, John W.

20.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

22.

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

George Burns

23.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

24.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

26.

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

Bertolt Brecht

27.

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

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

Bible

29.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

30.

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

31.

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

Craig Volk

32.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

34.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

35.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

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

Camus, Albert

37.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

38.

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

39.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

John Scalzi

41.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

43.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Hazlitt, William

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

48.

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

Frost, Robert

49.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Epicurus