Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Hoffer, Eric

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Woody Allen

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

Woody Allen

'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

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

10.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

11.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

12.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

15.

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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

18.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Woody Allen

24.

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

25.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

28.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

29.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Craig Volk

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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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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

34.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Forster, Edward M.

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