Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

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

Johnny Carson

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

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

Woody Allen

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

'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

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

Sophocles

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

10.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

11.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

13.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

15.

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

16.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

17.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

18.

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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

25.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

26.

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

Barker, Clive

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

30.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Fielding, Henry

35.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Keats, John

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

39.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

45.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

50.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!