Motivational Quotes

Death

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Death

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

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Horace

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.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Frost, Robert

14.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Dickinson, Emily

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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

Mann, Thomas

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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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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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

32.

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Macdonald, George

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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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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, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Butler, Samuel

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Montgomery, James

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.