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

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

John Scalzi

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

Carson, Johnny

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

10.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

11.

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

Woody Allen

12.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

14.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

16.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

18.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Epicurus

22.

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

23.

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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

25.

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

Dickinson, Emily

27.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

28.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

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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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

32.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

George Burns

35.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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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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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

41.

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

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

43.

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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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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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

47.

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

Berra, Yogi

48.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

49.

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

Bronte, Emily

50.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.