Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Bible

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Byron, Lord

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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

Gide, Andre

11.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

14.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

16.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

19.

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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Duffecy, James

25.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

27.

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

28.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

29.

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

Heidegger, Martin

30.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

32.

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

Foster, John W.

33.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Montgomery, James

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

Woody Allen

38.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

39.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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