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

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

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, 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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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

17.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

18.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

William Shakespeare

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

Canetti, Elias

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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 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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.