Motivational Quotes

Death

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Butler, Samuel

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Bertolt Brecht

10.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

11.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Craig Volk

13.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

20.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

22.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

28.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

33.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bible

36.

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

Fielding, Henry

37.

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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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

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

43.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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

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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius