Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

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

William Shakespeare

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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

Greene, Graham

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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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

11.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Dryden, John

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

17.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

20.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

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

Publilius Syrus

22.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

Charles II

25.

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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

Bright, Grant M.

30.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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

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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

43.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

45.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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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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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