Motivational Quotes

Death

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

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

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 a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Charles II

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

Allen, Woody

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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 report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Matt Frewer

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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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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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.