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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Fielding, Henry

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Allen, Woody

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

10.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

11.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

12.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

13.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

14.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

15.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

16.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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.

18.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

19.

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

20.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

21.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

23.

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

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.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

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

Foster, John W.

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

Allen, Woody

30.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

31.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

32.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

33.

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

34.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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.

38.

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

39.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

40.

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

Butler, Samuel

41.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

46.

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

Woody Allen

47.

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

Dyer, Wayne

48.

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

49.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel