Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Death

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Sophocles

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

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

John Scalzi

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.

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

Euripides

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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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Bayly, Joseph

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Barker, Clive

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Woody Allen

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Horace

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Bryant, William C.

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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