Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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

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

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

10.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

11.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

12.

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

13.

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

Hermes, Georg

14.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

15.

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

16.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Heidegger, Martin

19.

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

Hoffer, Eric

20.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

21.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

24.

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

Edith Sitwell

25.

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

Havner, Vance

27.

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

28.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

29.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

30.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

31.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

32.

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

Plato

33.

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

34.

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

Epicurus

35.

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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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

37.

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

Charles II

38.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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.

40.

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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

42.

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

43.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

45.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Publilius Syrus

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

49.

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

50.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De