Motivational Quotes

Death

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Becht, Ben

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

A. Sachs

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

David Assael

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Barker, Clive

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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.