Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Death

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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

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

Craig Volk

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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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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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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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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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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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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich