Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Best Quotes about Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bayly, Joseph

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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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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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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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

35.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

37.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

43.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Woody Allen

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.