Motivational Quotes

Death

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

- Samuel Goldwyn

Best Quotes about Death

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Woody Allen

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Hermes, Georg

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

Foster, John W.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

12.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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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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 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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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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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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

Bible

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Canetti, Elias

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

29.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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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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

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Butler, Samuel

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett