Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

12.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

13.

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

Johnny Carson

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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 dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

18.

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

25.

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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

30.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

31.

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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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

43.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.