Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Woody Allen

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Fielding, Henry

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Haracourt, Edmond

'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

10.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

11.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Horace

21.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

23.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

24.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Mitford, William

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

33.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

34.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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 someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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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?