Motivational Quotes

Death

'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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Eliot, George

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Horace

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Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Farber, Dave

21.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Sophocles

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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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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Eliot, George

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Edith Sitwell

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Gide, Andre

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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