Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

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

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

Marvell, Andrew

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

12.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

13.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

14.

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

Bayly, Joseph

15.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

17.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

19.

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

Dickinson, Emily

20.

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

Cocteau, Jean

21.

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

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Miller, Joaquin

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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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Edith Sitwell

28.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Moody, Dwight L.

30.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Keats, John

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Horace

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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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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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid