Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Death

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

George Burns

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bronte, Emily

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Lowell, James Russell

25.

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

Cocteau, Jean

27.

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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

30.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

35.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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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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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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