Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

David Assael

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Charles II

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

10.

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

11.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

13.

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

Camus, Albert

14.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

15.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

17.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

18.

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, S°ren

19.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

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

Hoffer, Eric

24.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

25.

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

Bible

26.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

27.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

28.

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

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

31.

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.

32.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

34.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

35.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

36.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

37.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

38.

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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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

40.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

41.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

42.

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

Woody Allen

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

45.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

46.

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

Butler, Samuel

47.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.