Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Death

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

Palmerston, Lord

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

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

Donne, John

10.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

11.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

12.

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

Bayly, Joseph

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

14.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

15.

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.

16.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

17.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

18.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

19.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

21.

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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Dryden, John

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

25.

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

Aaron McGruder

26.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

29.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

30.

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

Auerbach, Red

31.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Allen, Woody

33.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

34.

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

Hubbard, Kin

35.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

36.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

37.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

39.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

40.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

Duffecy, James

42.

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

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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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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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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Hazlitt, William

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius