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

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Oscar Wilde

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Sophocles

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

Dryden, John

15.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Montgomery, James

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

28.

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

Bible

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

Gray, Thomas

30.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Ann Radcliffe

33.

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Woody Allen

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

40.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Thrale, Hester i

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Pamela Ribon

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