Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

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

Stephanie Klein

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

David Assael

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Foster, John W.

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Byron, Lord

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Dryden, John

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Pamela Ribon

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

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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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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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Diderot, Denis

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.