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

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

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

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

Epicurus

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

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

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

Diderot, Denis

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

15.

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

16.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

18.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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 the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

31.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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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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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

40.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

42.

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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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'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

47.

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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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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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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