Motivational Quotes

Death

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

- Becht, Ben

Best Quotes about Death

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

Epicurus

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Woody Allen

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

10.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

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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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

14.

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

Edith Sitwell

15.

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

Woody Allen

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

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

Havner, Vance

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

21.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

27.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

28.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

29.

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

30.

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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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.

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Lowell, James Russell

35.

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

Allen, Woody

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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

37.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

38.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

39.

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

Palmerston, Lord

40.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Randy K. Milholland

42.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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'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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

46.

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

47.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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