Motivational Quotes

Death

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Gray, Thomas

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

10.

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

Keats, 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

13.

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

Darrow, Clarence

14.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

21.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

23.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

Foster, John W.

25.

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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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

33.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

40.

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

Cocteau, Jean

41.

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.

42.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch