Motivational Quotes

Death

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

- Osborne, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Darrow, Clarence

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

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

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

Young, Edward

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

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

10.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

11.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

12.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

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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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

18.

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

Lucan, F. L.

19.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Allen, Woody

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

Epicurus

23.

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

Allen, Woody

24.

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

Addison, Joseph

25.

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

Plato

26.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

27.

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

28.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

29.

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

30.

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

Johnny Carson

31.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

32.

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

33.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

34.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

36.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

37.

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

Allen, Woody

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Craig Volk

40.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

43.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

44.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

46.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

47.

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

Butler, Samuel

48.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

49.

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

Hoffer, Eric

50.

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