Motivational Quotes

Death

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

- Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Best Quotes about Death

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Woody Allen

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

Woody Allen

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Publilius Syrus

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Edith Sitwell

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Canetti, Elias

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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