Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Woody Allen

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Hazlitt, William

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

26.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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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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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

31.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

A. Sachs

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

40.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Samuel Goldwyn

42.

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

Randy K. Milholland

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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