Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Luther, Martin

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.

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Woody Allen

10.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

15.

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

16.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Fielding, Henry

21.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

30.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

33.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

34.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

35.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

36.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

37.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

38.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

39.

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

40.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

41.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

45.

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

Eliot, George

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