Motivational Quotes

Death

Only the young die good.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Death

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Barker, Clive

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 one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

10.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

11.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

12.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

13.

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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

16.

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

17.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

18.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

19.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

20.

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

Frost, Robert

21.

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

22.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

25.

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

Woody Allen

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

30.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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

33.

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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

35.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

36.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

38.

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

Allen, Woody

39.

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

Matt Frewer

40.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

41.

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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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

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

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

46.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

47.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

48.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare