Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Carson, Johnny

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Leonardo da Vinci

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Eliot, George

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'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

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Miller, Joaquin

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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

33.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

William Shakespeare

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Allen, Woody

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

Young, Edward

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

46.

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

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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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Butler, Samuel

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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