Motivational Quotes

Death

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

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

Berra, Yogi

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

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

10.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

13.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Belloc, Hilaire

15.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Pamela Ribon

18.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Landor, Walter Savage

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

23.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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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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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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

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

Foster, John W.

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

46.

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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.