Motivational Quotes

Death

An evil life is a kind of death.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Death

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Nepos, Cornelius

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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

17.

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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

30.

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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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Beaumont, Francis

42.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Edith Sitwell

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Canetti, Elias