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

Horace

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

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

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

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Charles II

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

Craig Volk

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

12.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

13.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Duffecy, James

17.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

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

19.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

20.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

21.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

22.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

24.

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

Byron, Lord

25.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

26.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

28.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

30.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

31.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

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

Mitford, William

33.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

38.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

39.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

40.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

41.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

43.

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

44.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

45.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.