Motivational Quotes

Death

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

- Osborne, John

Best Quotes about Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Fielding, Henry

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

10.

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

11.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

12.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

13.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

14.

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

Miller, Joaquin

15.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

17.

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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

19.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

20.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

21.

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

22.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

24.

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

25.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

26.

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

Allen, Woody

27.

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

Keats, John

28.

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

Mann, Thomas

29.

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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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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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

33.

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

34.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

35.

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

Epicurus

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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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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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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

39.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

40.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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

43.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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