Motivational Quotes

Death

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Death

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

John Scalzi

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

Chandler, Raymond

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

11.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Publilius Syrus

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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

20.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

22.

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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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

A. Sachs

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

30.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Epicurus

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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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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.