Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Palmerston, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

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

Macdonald, George

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Allen, Woody

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Woody Allen

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

Hook, Sydney

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Bryant, William C.

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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

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Heidegger, Martin

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Plato

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.