Motivational Quotes

Death

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

- James, Alice

Best Quotes about Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

'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

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

10.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

11.

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Woody Allen

14.

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.

15.

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

Palmerston, Lord

16.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

17.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

18.

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

19.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

20.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

22.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

24.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

25.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

27.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

29.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

30.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

31.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

33.

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

34.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

35.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

David Assael

42.

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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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.

44.

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

Becht, Ben

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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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 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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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

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

Macarthur, Douglas