Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Young, Edward

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Duffecy, James

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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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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

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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 grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Fielding, Henry

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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