Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Donne, John

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

'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

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

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

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

Stephanie Klein

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

Plato

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Duffecy, James

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Foster, John W.

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Woody Allen

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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 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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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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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 has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Fielding, Henry

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Dryden, John

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Havner, Vance

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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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Horace

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Palmerston, Lord

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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