Motivational Quotes

Death

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Death

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Darrow, Clarence

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Donne, John

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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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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

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Publilius Syrus

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Woody Allen

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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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

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

Macdonald, George

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

Fielding, Henry