Motivational Quotes

Death

These have not the hope to die.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Death

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Samuel Goldwyn

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Eliot, George

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Beaumont, Francis

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Eliot, George

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Gide, Andre

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Craig Volk

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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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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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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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

28.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

29.

'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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'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

31.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Ken, Thomas

36.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Hook, Sydney

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

43.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Allen, Woody

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

50.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert