Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Death

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Donne, John

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gray, Thomas

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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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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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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'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

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Charles II

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]