Motivational Quotes

Death

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

10.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

11.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

12.

'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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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

A. Sachs

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

Lowell, James Russell

17.

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

18.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bayly, Joseph

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Berra, Yogi

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Stephanie Klein

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

Bertolt Brecht

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Craig Volk

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Macdonald, George

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Auden, W. H.