Motivational Quotes

Death

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Camus, Albert

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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 only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Eliot, George

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Foster, John W.

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

A. Sachs

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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 report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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 Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Beaumont, Francis

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II