Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Sophocles

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

10.

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

11.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

12.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

13.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

14.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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.

16.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Duffecy, James

21.

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

22.

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

Barker, Clive

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Publilius Syrus

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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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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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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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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

33.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

38.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

44.

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

Carson, Johnny

45.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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.

49.

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

George Burns

50.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri