Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Mann, Thomas

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Duffecy, James

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Allen, Woody

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Keats, John

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

40.

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

William Shakespeare

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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.