Motivational Quotes

Death

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Death

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Woody Allen

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Oscar Wilde

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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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 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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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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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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

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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

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

David Assael

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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

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Hazlitt, William

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 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

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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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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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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Plato

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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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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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Woody Allen