Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Epicurus

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

'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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Duffecy, James

11.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

12.

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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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Luther, Martin

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Eliot, George

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

30.

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

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Euripides

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.