Motivational Quotes

Death

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Death

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

Farber, Dave

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

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

Craig Volk

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Macdonald, George

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Eliot, George

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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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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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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.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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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 going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther