Motivational Quotes

Death

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Best Quotes about Death

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Byron, Lord

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

Carson, Johnny

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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

11.

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

Hoffer, Eric

12.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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

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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

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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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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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.

23.

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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Barker, Clive

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

Gide, Andre

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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

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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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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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

Aaron McGruder

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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

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

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

Woody Allen