Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Foster, John W.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Hendrix, Jimi

10.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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

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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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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

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Barker, Clive

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Plato

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Ann Radcliffe

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The fear of death is worse than death.