Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Death

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Picabia, Francis

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

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Frost, Robert

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

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

A. Sachs

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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.

Diderot, Denis

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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 will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Foster, John W.

22.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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

31.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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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

43.

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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Bagnold, Enid