Motivational Quotes

Death

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Chandler, Raymond

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Canetti, Elias

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.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Woody Allen

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Edith Sitwell

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Matt Frewer

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Bible

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Johnny Carson

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Keats, John

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Heidegger, Martin

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Woody Allen