Motivational Quotes

Death

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Death

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.

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.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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

11.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

12.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Horace

14.

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 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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Foster, John W.

22.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

William Shakespeare

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

Johnny Carson

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

Euripides

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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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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 don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Bryant, William C.

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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Duffecy, James

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De