Motivational Quotes

Death

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Death

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Montgomery, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Epicurus

10.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

11.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

12.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

20.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Woody Allen

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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

30.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

Havner, Vance

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Milton, John

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Edith Sitwell

42.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

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 as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus