Motivational Quotes

Death

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

Darrow, Clarence

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

11.

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

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Miller, Joaquin

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Eliot, George

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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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Plato

24.

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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

27.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Bible

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

Epicurus

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Bible

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

George Burns

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

50.

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