Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dickinson, Emily

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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.

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

Aaron McGruder

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

Foster, John W.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

10.

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

11.

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

Milton, John

12.

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

Byron, Lord

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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

18.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

19.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

23.

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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'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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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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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

29.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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

31.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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

39.

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

Darrow, Clarence

40.

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

Allen, Woody

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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

45.

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

Eliot, George

46.

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

47.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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