Motivational Quotes

Death

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hook, Sydney

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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

Epictetus

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Epicurus

11.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

Woody Allen

14.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

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

16.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Johnny Carson

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

20.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Duffecy, James

23.

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

George Burns

24.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Woody Allen

27.

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

28.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

29.

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

Bright, Grant M.

30.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

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

Mann, Thomas

32.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

33.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

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

35.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

36.

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

Thrale, Hester i

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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

40.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

41.

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

Butler, Samuel

42.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

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

Bryant, William C.

45.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

46.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

48.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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To die is landing on some distant shore.