Motivational Quotes

Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Death

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Mann, Thomas

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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.

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Beaumont, Francis

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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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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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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward