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

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

10.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

11.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Duffecy, James

18.

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.

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Woody Allen

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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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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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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

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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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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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

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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

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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.

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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

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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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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

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