Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Death

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Craig Volk

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

Bright, Grant M.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

10.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

11.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

Bronte, Emily

14.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Ann Radcliffe

17.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

19.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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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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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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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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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

28.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

44.

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

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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

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.