Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

10.

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.

11.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

12.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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

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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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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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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

30.

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

Woody Allen

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

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

Bible

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Foster, John W.

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

Epicurus

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

45.

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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.