Motivational Quotes

Death

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Death

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Sophocles

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

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

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

Milton, John

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Byron, Lord

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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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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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 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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Keats, John

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Farber, Dave

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Randy K. Milholland

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.