Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Hazlitt, William

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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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

11.

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.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Foster, John W.

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Bright, Grant M.

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Canetti, Elias

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Allen, Woody

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Johnny Carson

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

Bible

39.

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

Woody Allen

40.

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

Epicurus

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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.

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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.

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Allen, Woody

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry