Motivational Quotes

Death

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

Duffecy, James

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Charles II

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Macdonald, George

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Carson, Johnny

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

12.

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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

16.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

17.

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

Craig Volk

18.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

19.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

20.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

22.

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

23.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

24.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

25.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

27.

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

Camus, Albert

28.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

Berra, Yogi

30.

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

Woody Allen

31.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

33.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

34.

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

Frida Kahlo

35.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

36.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

37.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

38.

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

Plato

39.

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

Fielding, Henry

40.

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

Fromm, Erich

41.

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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

43.

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

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

45.

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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.