Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Woody Allen

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

Bagnold, Enid

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Dryden, John

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

William Shakespeare

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Montgomery, James

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Bible

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Johnny Carson

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily