Motivational Quotes

Death

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

- Alsop, Steward

Best Quotes about Death

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hermes, Georg

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Luther, Martin

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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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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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

14.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

A. Sachs

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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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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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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 report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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

29.

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

Keats, John

31.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Plato

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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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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Marvell, Andrew

40.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Horace

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Auden, W. H.

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