Motivational Quotes

Death

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

- Certeau, Michel De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Johnny Carson

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Becht, Ben

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

10.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

11.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

13.

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

Manilius, Marcus

14.

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

John Scalzi

17.

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

Allen, Woody

18.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

19.

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

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

21.

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

Bright, Grant M.

22.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

23.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

24.

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

Woody Allen

25.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

26.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

27.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

28.

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

29.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

35.

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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Woody Allen

38.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

40.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

42.

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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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

45.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

46.

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

Palmerston, Lord

47.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.