Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Charles II

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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'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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Young, Edward

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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

18.

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

Foster, John W.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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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'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

27.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

46.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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.