Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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

Randy K. Milholland

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

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

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Horace

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

10.

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

Auerbach, Red

11.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

12.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean 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

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

Allen, Woody

17.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

18.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

19.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

20.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bacon, Francis

25.

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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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

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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

30.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

31.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

34.

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

Picabia, Francis

35.

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

Johnny Carson

36.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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

39.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

40.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

41.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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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 feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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