Motivational Quotes

Death

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

- Barker, Clive

Best Quotes about Death

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

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

Epicurus

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Woody Allen

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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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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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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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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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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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Butler, Samuel

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Woody Allen

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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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.