Motivational Quotes

Death

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Byron, Lord

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Darrow, Clarence

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Oscar Wilde

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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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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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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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 death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Foster, John W.

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Milton, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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.

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.