Motivational Quotes

Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Death

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

Charles II

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

Woody Allen

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

Beaumont, Francis

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Bible

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Auden, W. H.

10.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

11.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

13.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

18.

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

Dryden, John

19.

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

Matt Frewer

20.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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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

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S�ren

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

24.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

25.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

26.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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

29.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

30.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

31.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

32.

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

Forster, Edward M.

33.

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

Darrow, Clarence

34.

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

Craig Volk

35.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

37.

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

Keats, John

38.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Cocteau, Jean

42.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hazlitt, William

45.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

47.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

48.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.