Motivational Quotes

Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Edith Sitwell

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

10.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

11.

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

12.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

13.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

14.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Luther, Martin

16.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

20.

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

21.

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

Horace

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

26.

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.

27.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

28.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Matt Frewer

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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

32.

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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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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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Epictetus

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

Havner, Vance

40.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

41.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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 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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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

48.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Publilius Syrus