Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Samuel Goldwyn

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Craig Volk

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Duffecy, James

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

Lucan, F. L.

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Camus, Albert

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Edith Sitwell

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

42.

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

Fielding, Henry

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

A. Sachs

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