Motivational Quotes

Death

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Death

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Young, Edward

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Woody Allen

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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Woody Allen

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

Darrow, Clarence