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

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

Matt Frewer

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

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Bible

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

Epicurus

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

Fromm, Erich

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Bryant, William C.

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

12.

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

Charles II

13.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

15.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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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

18.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

19.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

20.

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

21.

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

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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

23.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

24.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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 death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

27.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

28.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Auden, W. H.

30.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

33.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

34.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

35.

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

Bronte, Emily

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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

41.

'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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

44.

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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

46.

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

47.

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

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George