Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Death

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

W. Somerset Maugham

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Carson, Johnny

12.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Woody Allen

14.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

16.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

17.

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.

18.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

19.

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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

21.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

22.

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

Dyer, Wayne

23.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

24.

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

Hook, Sydney

25.

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

Dickinson, Emily

26.

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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

28.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

29.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

30.

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

31.

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

Allen, Woody

32.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

33.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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

36.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

37.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

38.

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

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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]

Bible

40.

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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

43.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

44.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

45.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sophocles

48.

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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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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