Motivational Quotes

Death

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Duffecy, James

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

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Diderot, Denis

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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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

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

36.

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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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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Dickinson, Emily

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.