Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Heidegger, Martin

Best Quotes about Death

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

George Burns

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

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Eliot, George

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, 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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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

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Carson, Johnny

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah