Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Craig Volk

Best Quotes about Death

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Maclaren, Alexander

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Miller, Joaquin

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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hook, Sydney

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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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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Epicurus

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

William Shakespeare

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Gray, Thomas

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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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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnny Carson

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

42.

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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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Allen, Woody

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth