Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Horace

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

Allen, Woody

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

Fielding, Henry

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

John Scalzi

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

10.

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

Epicurus

11.

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

12.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

13.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 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

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Havner, Vance

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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

24.

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Sophocles

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Becht, Ben

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

Young, Edward

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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

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Dryden, John

39.

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

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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

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Woody Allen

45.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Bronte, Emily

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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