Motivational Quotes

Death

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Death

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Randy K. Milholland

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

10.

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

Berra, Yogi

11.

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

12.

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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Charles II

15.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

16.

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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

18.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

19.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

20.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

21.

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

Mann, Thomas

22.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

24.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

25.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

26.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

27.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

28.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

Cocteau, Jean

30.

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

Hook, Sydney

31.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

32.

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

Auden, W. H.

33.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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

35.

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

Craig Volk

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

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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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

40.

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

Publilius Syrus

42.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

43.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

44.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew