Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

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

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

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Horace

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Miller, Joaquin

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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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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 dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Canetti, Elias

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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 human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.