Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Death

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Lee, Nathaniel

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Camus, Albert

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Craig Volk

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Horace

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Foster, John W.

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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.

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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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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

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

Pamela Ribon

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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

41.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Manilius, Marcus

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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