Motivational Quotes

Death

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

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

William Shakespeare

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

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.

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

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

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Foster, John W.

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Auerbach, Red

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

David Assael

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Havner, Vance

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

Euripides

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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 guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Frida Kahlo

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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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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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Woody Allen

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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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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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