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

Fielding, Henry

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

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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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

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Beaumont, Francis

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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

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

Allen, Woody

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles