Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Palmerston, Lord

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

10.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

11.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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12.

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.

13.

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

Bright, Grant M.

14.

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

Hook, Sydney

15.

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

16.

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

Epicurus

18.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Epicurus

20.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Berra, Yogi

23.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

24.

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

Luther, Martin

25.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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

30.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

32.

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

Charles II

33.

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

Woody Allen

34.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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.

38.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

39.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

40.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

41.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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

Greene, Graham

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

46.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Auerbach, Red

49.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider