Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

'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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Beaumont, Francis

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

11.

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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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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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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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

25.

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

Keats, John

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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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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

William Shakespeare

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Young, Edward

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S�ren

43.

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

Eliot, George

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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

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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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Manilius, Marcus