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

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Young, Edward

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Forster, Edward M.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Frost, Robert

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

Gide, Andre

10.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

11.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

12.

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

Cocteau, Jean

13.

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

Woody Allen

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

15.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

16.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

Woody Allen

19.

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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

21.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Duffecy, James

24.

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

Matthew V. Lewis

25.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

26.

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

Allen, Woody

27.

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

Woody Allen

28.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

29.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

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

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

Chandler, Raymond

32.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

33.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

34.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

35.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

36.

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

Bible

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

Camus, Albert

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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.

39.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

40.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

42.

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.

43.

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

Greene, Graham

44.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

45.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Bayly, Joseph