Motivational Quotes

Death

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

- Hamilton, Hugh

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

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

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Auden, W. H.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Euripides

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Pamela Ribon

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Foster, John W.

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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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.

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George