Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Death

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Publilius Syrus

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Haracourt, Edmond

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Camus, Albert

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Publilius Syrus

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Pamela Ribon

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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.