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

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Sophocles

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

Craig Volk

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Barker, Clive

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

Edith Sitwell

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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

12.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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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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

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Woody Allen

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

William Shakespeare

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Camus, Albert

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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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