Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Death

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

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

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Auerbach, Red

10.

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

Cocteau, Jean

11.

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

Plato

12.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

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

Carson, Johnny

19.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Johnny Carson

21.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Woody Allen

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Craig Volk

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Horace

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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

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Woody Allen

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Woody Allen

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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