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

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

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

Dryden, John

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.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

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.

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

Bayly, Joseph

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

David Assael

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

16.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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.

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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

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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

31.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Oscar Wilde

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

George Burns

35.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Edith Sitwell

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Havner, Vance

48.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

49.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell