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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Craig Volk

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Fielding, Henry

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Berra, Yogi

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Bayly, Joseph

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Young, Edward

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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