Motivational Quotes

Death

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Death

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Camus, Albert

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kocher, Gerhard

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Epicurus

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

11.

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

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

14.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

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17.

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

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18.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Woody Allen

21.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

29.

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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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

David Assael

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

40.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

46.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Macarthur, Douglas