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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Epicurus

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

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

10.

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

Manilius, Marcus

11.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

12.

'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

13.

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

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

15.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Berra, Yogi

18.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

21.

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Stephanie Klein

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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

25.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cocteau, Jean

30.

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

Barker, Clive

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

33.

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

34.

'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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

39.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

41.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

43.

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

Auerbach, Red

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Camus, Albert

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

49.

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

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance