Motivational Quotes

Death

We are all dead men on leave.

- Levine, Eugene

Best Quotes about Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

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

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Matt Frewer

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

10.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

11.

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

Ann Radcliffe

12.

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

13.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

15.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Sophocles

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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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Auden, W. H.

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Lowell, James Russell

25.

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

26.

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

Woody Allen

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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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

Lee, Nathaniel

35.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Picabia, Francis

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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