Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Darrow, Clarence

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Stephanie Klein

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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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

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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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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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 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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Euripides

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Dryden, 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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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Eliot, George

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Keats, John

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Frida Kahlo

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

George Burns

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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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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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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson