Motivational Quotes

Death

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

- Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Best Quotes about Death

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

Craig Volk

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

Plato

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

10.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

11.

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

12.

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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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

16.

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

Fielding, Henry

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Greene, Graham

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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Duffecy, James

25.

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

Farber, Dave

26.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Hook, Sydney

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

31.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

32.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

34.

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

35.

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

Barker, Clive

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Bronte, Emily

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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

46.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.