Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Death

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

Becht, Ben

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Foster, John W.

25.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

26.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Woody Allen

32.

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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

35.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

40.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.