Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- George Burns

Best Quotes about Death

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Edith Sitwell

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Farber, Dave

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gray, Thomas

10.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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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

13.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

18.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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.

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

27.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

28.

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

Frida Kahlo

29.

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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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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

36.

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

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Keats, John

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Berra, Yogi

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Allen, Woody