Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Death

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

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

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Carson, Johnny

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

10.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Auden, W. H.

13.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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

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

Woody Allen

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Woody Allen

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

Hook, Sydney

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Charles II

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

48.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Epicurus