Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Death

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Lee, Nathaniel

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Woody Allen

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

Carson, Johnny

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Farber, Dave

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Edith Sitwell

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

A. Sachs

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Milton, John