Motivational Quotes

Death

These have not the hope to die.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Death

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Butler, Samuel

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

11.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Foster, John W.

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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.

Maclaren, Alexander

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Epicurus

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

Bryant, William C.

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Milton, John

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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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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Leonardo da Vinci