Motivational Quotes

Death

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

- George Burns

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

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

Charles II

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

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

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Auerbach, Red

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Dryden, John

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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

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

Johnny Carson

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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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.

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Plato

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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 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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Edith Sitwell

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