Motivational Quotes

Death

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Death

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 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

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Aaron McGruder

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Allen, Woody

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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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 hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

William Shakespeare

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Epicurus

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Foster, John W.

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Gide, Andre

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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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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

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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