Motivational Quotes

Death

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Milton, John

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

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

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

Woody Allen

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Jefferson, Joseph

11.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

12.

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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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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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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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

22.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

23.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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

25.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

30.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

36.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

37.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

40.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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 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

45.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

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

Heidegger, Martin

47.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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