Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Lowell, James Russell

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

10.

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

Pamela Ribon

11.

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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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

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

18.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Marvell, Andrew

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

24.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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

27.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

28.

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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'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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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

31.

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]

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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

43.

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

44.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Heidegger, Martin

48.

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

Carson, Johnny

49.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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.