Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

10.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

11.

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

Bright, Grant M.

12.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

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.

14.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

15.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

16.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

19.

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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

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

27.

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

Becht, Ben

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

29.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

30.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Marvell, Andrew

32.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

33.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

34.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

37.

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

38.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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

43.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

44.

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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Fielding, Henry

49.

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

William Shakespeare