Motivational Quotes

Death

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Chandler, Raymond

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

10.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

12.

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

Duffecy, James

13.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

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, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

16.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

18.

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

Horace

19.

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

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

22.

'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 an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

24.

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

Plato

25.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

26.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

27.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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

29.

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

George Burns

30.

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

31.

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

Hubbard, Kin

32.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

33.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

34.

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

35.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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.

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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

40.

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

Edith Sitwell

41.

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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

43.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

44.

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

Dickinson, Emily

45.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

46.

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

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Bayly, Joseph

49.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

50.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord