Motivational Quotes

Death

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

- Charles II

Best Quotes about Death

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

Luther, Martin

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Oscar Wilde

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Manilius, Marcus

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Sophocles

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

Ken, Thomas

15.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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'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

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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

23.

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

Aaron McGruder

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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.

25.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Farber, Dave

27.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Bryant, William C.

29.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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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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

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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 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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Eliot, George

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Plato

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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

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Butler, Samuel

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain