Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Death

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Bible

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

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Miller, Joaquin

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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

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Epicurus

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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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

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Picabia, Francis

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Horace

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin