Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Bryant, William C.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Butler, Samuel

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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 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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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Foster, John W.

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

21.

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

Bible

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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 that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

25.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Farber, Dave

30.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

31.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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

40.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

41.

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.

42.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

43.

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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.