Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Gide, Andre

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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 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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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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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Milton, John

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.