Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Death

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Woody Allen

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

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Mann, Thomas

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barker, Clive

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Craig Volk

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Oscar Wilde

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Epicurus

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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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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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