Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

- Ellis, Alice Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Havner, Vance

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

Epictetus

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Woody Allen

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Craig Volk

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

Woody Allen

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

11.

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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

18.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

22.

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

Fielding, Henry

23.

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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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Einstein, Albert

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Farber, Dave

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

Edith Sitwell

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Bronte, Emily

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Woody Allen

39.

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

Mann, Thomas

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Camus, Albert

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.