Motivational Quotes

Death

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

William Shakespeare

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Woody Allen

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Plato

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

Foster, John W.

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Haracourt, Edmond

29.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Craig Volk

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Dickinson, Emily

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Luther, Martin

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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