Motivational Quotes

Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Death

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

'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

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

Publilius Syrus

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Lee, Nathaniel

10.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

11.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

12.

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

Sophocles

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

Woody Allen

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Epicurus

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

Hubbard, Kin

19.

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

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

25.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

27.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

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

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

31.

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

Gide, Andre

32.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

33.

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

34.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

35.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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 but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

40.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

48.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj