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

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Berra, Yogi

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

10.

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

11.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

12.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Oscar Wilde

14.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

15.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

16.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

19.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

20.

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

A. Sachs

21.

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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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

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

Manilius, Marcus

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

25.

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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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

27.

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

28.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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

31.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

32.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

34.

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

35.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

37.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

40.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Becht, Ben

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.