Motivational Quotes

Death

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Ken, Thomas

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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 don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Foster, John W.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Publilius Syrus

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Fromm, Erich

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

38.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Craig Volk

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George