Motivational Quotes

Death

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Horace

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

Woody Allen

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

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

10.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Woody Allen

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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 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

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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

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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

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Luther, Martin

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.