Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Johnny Carson

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

Woody Allen

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Macdonald, George

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Chandler, Raymond

10.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Craig Volk

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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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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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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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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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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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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

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

32.

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

Mann, Thomas

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Epicurus

38.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Dickinson, Emily

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Woody Allen

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare