Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Camus, Albert

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

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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

11.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

A. Sachs

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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.

Osborne, John

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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

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Horace

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Epicurus

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul 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

34.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Bible

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

Farber, Dave

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

42.

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

Montgomery, James

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

Bryant, William C.

44.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Berra, Yogi

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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 destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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