Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

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

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Einstein, Albert

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

10.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

12.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

13.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

18.

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

Eliot, George

19.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

20.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

23.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

24.

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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

26.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

27.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

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

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

30.

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

31.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

33.

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

Matt Frewer

34.

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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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 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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

39.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

40.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Woody Allen

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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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

45.

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

Johnny Carson

46.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace