Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

Palmerston, Lord

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

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

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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

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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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

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Oscar Wilde

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Beaumont, Francis

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.