Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

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

Cocteau, Jean

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bible

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Foster, John W.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus