Motivational Quotes

Death

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

11.

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

12.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

15.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

16.

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

17.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

18.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Foster, John W.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

26.

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

Berra, Yogi

27.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

28.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

30.

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

Darrow, Clarence

31.

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

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

33.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Publilius Syrus

35.

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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

40.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

42.

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

Bible

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

46.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider