Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Woody Allen

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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

14.

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

15.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

16.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

20.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Horace

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

26.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

30.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

32.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

33.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

34.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

35.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Greene, Graham

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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.

43.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Gide, Andre

48.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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