Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

- Man, Paul De

Best Quotes about Death

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Woody Allen

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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 is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

11.

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

12.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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 destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

24.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Woody Allen

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Luther, Martin

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

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

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

48.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.