Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

- Man, Paul De

Best Quotes about Death

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Dryden, John

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Euripides

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

William Shakespeare

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Thrale, Hester i

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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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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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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Chandler, Raymond

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.