Motivational Quotes

Death

To die is landing on some distant shore.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Butler, Samuel

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

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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

Montgomery, James

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Pamela Ribon

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Foster, John W.

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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'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

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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