Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Keats, John

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

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Allen, Woody

11.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

12.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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.

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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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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'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

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Montgomery, James

25.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

30.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

33.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

34.

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.

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

Picabia, Francis

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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 am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

41.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

42.

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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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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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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