Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

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

Ann Radcliffe

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Plato

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

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

Epictetus

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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

11.

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

Carson, Johnny

12.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

13.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

16.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

17.

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

18.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

19.

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

Beaumont, Francis

20.

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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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

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

Johnny Carson

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

26.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

30.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

31.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Bayly, Joseph

34.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

35.

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

Randy K. Milholland

36.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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.

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

Woody Allen

42.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

43.

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.

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

48.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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