Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Bible

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

John Scalzi

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Duffecy, James

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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

18.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Bronte, Emily

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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

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

Miller, Joaquin

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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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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

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Greene, Graham