Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Death

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

Frost, Robert

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Auerbach, Red

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

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

Miller, Joaquin

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Becht, Ben

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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.

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Dryden, John

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Woody Allen

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Craig Volk

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs