Motivational Quotes

Death

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

- George Burns

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Mann, Thomas

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Eliot, George

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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Frost, Robert

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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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

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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

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Bible

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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