Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

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

Auerbach, Red

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Johnny Carson

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

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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nepos, Cornelius

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

15.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

19.

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

Bible

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Publilius Syrus

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Canetti, Elias

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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 a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Dickinson, Emily

37.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Macdonald, George

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Plato

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Epicurus