Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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 a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Allen, Woody

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Epicurus

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Berra, Yogi

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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