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

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

Beaumont, Francis

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Milton, John

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Eliot, George

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Barker, Clive

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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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

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Butler, Samuel

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Greene, Graham

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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Woody Allen

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Eliot, George

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

William Shakespeare

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb