Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Durrell, Lawrence

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

10.

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

Publilius Syrus

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

13.

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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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

20.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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

23.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Hoffer, Eric

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

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

A. Sachs

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

34.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Woody Allen

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Sophocles

40.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

42.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

45.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

50.

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