Motivational Quotes

Death

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Death

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Hazlitt, William

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.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

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

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

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

Gray, Thomas

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

12.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gide, Andre

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Epicurus

18.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

20.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

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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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

27.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Belloc, Hilaire

29.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

30.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

33.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

35.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Camus, Albert

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

Manilius, Marcus

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Butler, Samuel

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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