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

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

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

Beaumont, Francis

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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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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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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

13.

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

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

15.

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

16.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

17.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

18.

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

Craig Volk

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

21.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Charles II

25.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

27.

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

Edith Sitwell

28.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

30.

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

31.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

32.

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

33.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

34.

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.

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

39.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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