Motivational Quotes

Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Foster, John W.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Stephanie Klein

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Thrale, Hester i

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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

16.

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.

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

18.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Mann, Thomas

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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

35.

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

Bible

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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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Gray, Thomas

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

43.

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

Oscar Wilde

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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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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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.