Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Death

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Jefferson, Joseph

32.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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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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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

41.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

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