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

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

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 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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Macdonald, George

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Camus, Albert

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.