Motivational Quotes

Death

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

- Marvell, Andrew

Best Quotes about Death

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

Stephanie Klein

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

Keats, John

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

10.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

11.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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 fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Jefferson, Joseph

18.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

20.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Bible

30.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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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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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

41.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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