Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Euripides

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

10.

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

11.

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

Fromm, Erich

12.

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

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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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

William Shakespeare

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Forster, Edward M.

21.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

22.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

23.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

24.

'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

25.

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

Camus, Albert

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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

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Bagnold, Enid

29.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

30.

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

31.

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

Hazlitt, William

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

33.

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

Montgomery, James

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

35.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

36.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

A. Sachs

38.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

39.

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

40.

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

Dickinson, Emily

41.

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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

43.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

45.

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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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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.