Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Einstein, Albert

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

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

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

18.

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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

25.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

26.

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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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

31.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

42.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Palmerston, Lord

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