Motivational Quotes

Death

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

- Palmerston, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Young, Edward

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

Dickinson, Emily

11.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Allen, Woody

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

25.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Addison, Joseph

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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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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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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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

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De