Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Samuel Goldwyn

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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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

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

Fromm, Erich

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Johnny Carson

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

21.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

William Shakespeare

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Allen, Woody

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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

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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 eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.