Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

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

Duffecy, James

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

Matt Frewer

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

10.

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

11.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Bible

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

18.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

19.

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

Palmerston, Lord

20.

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

21.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

25.

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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

29.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

33.

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

Becht, Ben

34.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

35.

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

Young, Edward

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

40.

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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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

42.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Bronte, Emily

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

46.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.