Motivational Quotes

Death

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Death

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bronte, Emily

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

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

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Horace

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

11.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Horace

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

19.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

28.

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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

33.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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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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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 be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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