Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Woody Allen

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

Woody Allen

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

10.

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

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

12.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

Ann Radcliffe

14.

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

Woody Allen

15.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

16.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

17.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

19.

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

20.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

24.

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

Allen, Woody

25.

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

26.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Addison, Joseph

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

36.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

37.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

38.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Fielding, Henry

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

48.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Young, Edward

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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