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

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

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

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

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

'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

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

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Addison, Joseph

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Keats, John

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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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 awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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.

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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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

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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

Woody Allen

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

Hook, Sydney

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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