Motivational Quotes

Death

To die is landing on some distant shore.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

10.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

Bible

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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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

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

Montgomery, James

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

Keats, John

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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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Einstein, Albert

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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'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

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Durrell, Lawrence

39.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.