Motivational Quotes

Death

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Forster, Edward M.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

A. Sachs

10.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

11.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

12.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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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

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

25.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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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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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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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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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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 begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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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 one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Buffett, Jimmy

48.

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

49.

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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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