Motivational Quotes

Death

We are all dead men on leave.

- Levine, Eugene

Best Quotes about Death

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Samuel Goldwyn

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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'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

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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 is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Milton, John

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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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

18.

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

Keats, John

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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

21.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 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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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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 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

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

Edith Sitwell

32.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

34.

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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, 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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?