Motivational Quotes

Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Bible

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Allen, Woody

10.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

11.

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

Carson, Johnny

12.

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

13.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

15.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

17.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

18.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

20.

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

21.

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

Plato

22.

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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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

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

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Belloc, Hilaire

33.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Addison, Joseph

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

40.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

41.

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

Euripides

42.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

48.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

49.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous