Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Nepos, Cornelius

Best Quotes about Death

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bible

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

Bible

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Frost, Robert

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

10.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

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

Allen, Woody

12.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

13.

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

Camus, Albert

14.

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

Allen, Woody

15.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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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

20.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

21.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Horace

23.

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

Edith Sitwell

24.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

26.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

27.

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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

34.

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

Darrow, Clarence

35.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

36.

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

Bryant, William C.

37.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

38.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

39.

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

40.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

41.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

43.

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

Barker, Clive

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

46.

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

Fielding, Henry

48.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Landor, Walter Savage