Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Butler, Samuel

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Plato

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Young, Edward

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

Miller, Joaquin

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Butler, Samuel

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Horace

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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

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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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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Woody Allen

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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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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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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 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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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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 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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Ann Radcliffe

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