Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Palmerston, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Macdonald, George

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Hook, Sydney

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

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

Allen, Woody

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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

Auden, W. H.

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides