Motivational Quotes

Death

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Barker, Clive

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Eliot, George

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

10.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Miller, Joaquin

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Carson, Johnny

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

37.

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

40.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Cocteau, Jean

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles