Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

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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

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Duffecy, James

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

Keats, John

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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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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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

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

Craig Volk

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

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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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

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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

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

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