Motivational Quotes

Death

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Death

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Pamela Ribon

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Camus, Albert

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

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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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'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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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 repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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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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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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

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

Bible

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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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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Lowell, James Russell

38.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bertolt Brecht

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Hook, Sydney

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Johnny Carson

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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth