Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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

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

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Woody Allen

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Euripides

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Woody Allen

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

Mitford, William

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider