Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

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

David Assael

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bertolt Brecht

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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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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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Hook, Sydney

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Ken, Thomas

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene