Motivational Quotes

Death

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Death

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Dryden, John

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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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

26.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

28.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Duffecy, James

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz