Motivational Quotes

Death

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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

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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Fromm, Erich

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Duffecy, James

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

Pamela Ribon

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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Craig Volk

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

Horace

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

Plato

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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