Motivational Quotes

Death

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Fielding, Henry

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Barker, Clive

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Bertolt Brecht

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

10.

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

11.

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

Carson, Johnny

12.

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

Camus, Albert

13.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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

25.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Epicurus

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Hook, Sydney

30.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

31.

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

32.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

33.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

34.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

37.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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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.

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.