Motivational Quotes

Death

'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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

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

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

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

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

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Eliot, George

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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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Duffecy, James

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Young, Edward

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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He would make a lovely corpse.