Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Death

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

Camus, Albert

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Haracourt, Edmond

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

14.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

15.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

18.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Craig Volk

21.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Woody Allen

25.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

William Shakespeare

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

A. Sachs

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

Duffecy, James

38.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Lowell, James Russell

40.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

41.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Barker, Clive

43.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

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

Milton, John

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

Craig Volk

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel 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