Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Bhagavad Gita

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

22.

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

Allen, Woody

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Woody Allen

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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'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

38.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Horace

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Sophocles

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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