Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Butler, Samuel

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

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Fielding, Henry

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Montgomery, James

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Johnny Carson

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

Milton, John

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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

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Donne, John

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

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

Woody Allen

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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

Craig Volk

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.