Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Johnny Carson

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

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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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

11.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

12.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

13.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

14.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

15.

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

Randy K. Milholland

16.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

17.

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

Publilius Syrus

18.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

19.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

20.

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

21.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

22.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Eliot, George

25.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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 is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

29.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

30.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

31.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Hazlitt, William

34.

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

Randy K. Milholland

35.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

38.

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

Fielding, Henry

39.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

40.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

41.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

42.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

47.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

48.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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