Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Woody Allen

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

Darrow, Clarence

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Oscar Wilde

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

11.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

14.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Addison, Joseph

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

18.

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

Berra, Yogi

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Woody Allen

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

32.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

34.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Barker, Clive

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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

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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

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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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Johnny Carson

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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