Motivational Quotes

Death

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

- Pamela Ribon

Best Quotes about Death

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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

11.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Dryden, John

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Allen, Woody

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Eliot, George

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

Bible

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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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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De