Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Death

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sophocles

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Woody Allen

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

Butler, Samuel

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

11.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

William Shakespeare

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Macdonald, George

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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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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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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Matt Frewer

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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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