Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Epicurus

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Craig Volk

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

Woody Allen

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

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

Frida Kahlo

12.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

17.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

19.

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

Cocteau, Jean

20.

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

Matt Frewer

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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

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

Johnny Carson

27.

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

Woody Allen

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

29.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

33.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Dickinson, Emily

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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

44.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Einstein, Albert

48.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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.