Motivational Quotes

Death

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Death

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.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Keats, John

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

13.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Milton, John

18.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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20.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Fielding, Henry

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

27.

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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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

29.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

33.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

34.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

35.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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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

37.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

38.

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

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.