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

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Dryden, John

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

10.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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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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

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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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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Woody Allen

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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

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

Woody Allen

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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Woody Allen

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Woody Allen

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Keats, John

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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

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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

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

Heidegger, Martin

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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

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

Duffecy, James

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

Bible

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Dickinson, Emily

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