Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Jefferson, Joseph

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

Mann, Thomas

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

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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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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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

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Epicurus

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Hoffer, Eric

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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

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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

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Gide, Andre

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Eliot, George

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Craig Volk

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch