Motivational Quotes

Death

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

- Plath, Sylvia

Best Quotes about Death

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

Buffett, Jimmy

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Bronte, Emily

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Edith Sitwell

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Dryden, John

10.

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

Woody Allen

11.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

12.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

13.

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

Young, Edward

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

17.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Plato

19.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

21.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

23.

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

Oscar Wilde

24.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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

26.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

28.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

29.

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

Darrow, Clarence

30.

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

31.

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

Picabia, Francis

32.

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

33.

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

Farber, Dave

34.

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

Barker, Clive

35.

'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

36.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

37.

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

A. Sachs

38.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Ken, Thomas

40.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

41.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

42.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

43.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

44.

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

45.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

46.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

47.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

49.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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