Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

- Ellis, Alice Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Barker, Clive

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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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.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Publilius Syrus

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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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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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, 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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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

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Macdonald, George

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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.