Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Death

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Horace

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Butler, Samuel

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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 fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Oscar Wilde

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

18.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Allen, Woody

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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Barker, Clive

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

30.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Publilius Syrus

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

Horace

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.