Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

Edith Sitwell

11.

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

Woody Allen

12.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

14.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

16.

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

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

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

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

21.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

23.

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

Camus, Albert

24.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

29.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

30.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Frida Kahlo

33.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Bible

35.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

37.

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

Canetti, Elias

39.

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

40.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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

44.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

45.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

47.

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

Ann Radcliffe

48.

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

Woody Allen

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.