Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Death

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Berra, Yogi

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

12.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

13.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Foster, John W.

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

25.

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

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

Carson, Johnny

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Gide, Andre

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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

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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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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

32.

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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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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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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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.

37.

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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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Publilius Syrus

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Becht, Ben

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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

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

Woody Allen

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

Browne, Sir Thomas