Motivational Quotes

Death

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

- Montgomery, James

Best Quotes about Death

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Palmerston, Lord

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Havner, Vance

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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

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Horace

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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

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Macdonald, George

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bible

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Foster, John W.

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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