Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

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

Mitford, William

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

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

Dryden, John

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

11.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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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 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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

31.

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

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

Woody Allen

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dryden, John

37.

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

Frida Kahlo

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

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50.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John