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

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

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

Craig Volk

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Berra, Yogi

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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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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

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

William Shakespeare

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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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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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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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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