Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Death

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

19.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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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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.

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

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Hendrix, Jimi

39.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

40.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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

49.

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett