Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

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

Craig Volk

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Frost, Robert

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.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Macdonald, George

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

10.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

13.

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

Woody Allen

14.

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

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

19.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

20.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

21.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Woody Allen

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

Matt Frewer

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

Becht, Ben

27.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

28.

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

Keats, John

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

Mitford, William

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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

44.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Auerbach, Red

46.

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

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Edith Sitwell

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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