Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Death

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Greene, Graham

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Woody Allen

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Craig Volk

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

24.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Berra, Yogi

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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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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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.