Motivational Quotes

Death

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Death

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Darrow, Clarence

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

10.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

11.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

12.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

13.

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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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

17.

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

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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

19.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

20.

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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Hazlitt, William

24.

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

Keats, John

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

Horace

26.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Bertolt Brecht

28.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

29.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

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

Matt Frewer

31.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

33.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

35.

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

Ann Radcliffe

36.

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

37.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

40.

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

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

42.

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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther