Motivational Quotes

Death

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

- Gray, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Euripides

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

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

11.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

13.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

14.

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

Berra, Yogi

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

17.

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

Edith Sitwell

18.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

20.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Mann, Thomas

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

23.

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

Beaumont, Francis

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

30.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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 never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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

40.

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

Montgomery, James

41.

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

42.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

43.

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

Foster, John W.

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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

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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