Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Death

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Duffecy, James

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Landor, Walter Savage

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

14.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

15.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

16.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

17.

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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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Havner, Vance

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

29.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Bible

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

45.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

48.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn