Motivational Quotes

Death

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Death

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

Epictetus

Huxley, Aldous

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Macdonald, George

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Sophocles

14.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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'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

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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.

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Berra, Yogi

27.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

34.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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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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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Horace

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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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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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 has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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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