Motivational Quotes

Death

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

- Cary, Joyce

Best Quotes about Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Byron, Lord

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Montgomery, James

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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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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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, 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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn