Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Death

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Horace

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Foster, John W.

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 doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Carson, Johnny

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Milton, John

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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.

Camus, Albert

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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

Keats, John

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Sophocles

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

Aurelius, Marcus