Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Epicurus

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Horace

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Woody Allen

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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

Duffecy, James

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Aaron McGruder

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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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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

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

Berra, Yogi

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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