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

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Plato

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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]

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Picabia, Francis

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Fielding, Henry

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Gide, Andre

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Farber, Dave

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Luther, Martin

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

Edith Sitwell

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.