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

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

Woody Allen

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Mann, Thomas

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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.

10.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

George Burns

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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

John Scalzi

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Gray, Thomas

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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

37.

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

Epicurus

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Foster, John W.

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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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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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

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert