Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Palmerston, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

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

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Fielding, Henry

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

12.

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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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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

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

Horace

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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Woody Allen

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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

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

Foster, John W.

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

34.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell