Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Epictetus

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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.

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

11.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Becht, Ben

13.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Palmerston, Lord

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

29.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Young, Edward

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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

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Berra, Yogi

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

John Scalzi

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.