Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Death

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

11.

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

Bible

12.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

13.

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

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

Chandler, Raymond

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

16.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

17.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

20.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

22.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Ann Radcliffe

25.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

26.

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

Bryant, William C.

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

28.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

John Scalzi

34.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

35.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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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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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Woody Allen

48.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.