Motivational Quotes

Death

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

A. Sachs

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Manilius, Marcus

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, 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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Aaron McGruder

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Woody Allen

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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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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

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

Horace

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.