Motivational Quotes

Death

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

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

Guthrie, Arlo

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

Auerbach, Red

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

10.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

11.

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

Addison, Joseph

12.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Charles II

15.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

16.

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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Mitford, William

19.

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Butler, Samuel

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

24.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

25.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

27.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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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

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Publilius Syrus

34.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Berra, Yogi

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

42.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Canetti, Elias

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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.

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

47.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bronte, Emily

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Hook, Sydney