Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Haracourt, Edmond

Best Quotes about Death

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

Addison, Joseph

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

Matt Frewer

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

Oscar Wilde

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

John Scalzi

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Macdonald, George

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Montgomery, James

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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 is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Barker, Clive

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William