Motivational Quotes

Death

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Bagnold, Enid

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Gray, Thomas

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Woody Allen

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

Woody Allen

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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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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

William Shakespeare

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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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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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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Carson, Johnny

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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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

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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