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

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Barker, Clive

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Frida Kahlo

10.

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

11.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

12.

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

13.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

15.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Fielding, Henry

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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.

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

Matt Frewer

39.

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

Farber, Dave

40.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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

44.

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

45.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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