Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Death

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

Thrale, Hester i

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Duffecy, James

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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 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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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

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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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

William Shakespeare

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Horace

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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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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Pamela Ribon

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.