Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Camus, Albert

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Haracourt, Edmond

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Charles II

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

30.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

William Shakespeare

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

Johnny Carson

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Picabia, Francis

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Butler, Samuel

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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.

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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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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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice