Motivational Quotes

Death

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

- Hendrix, Jimi

Best Quotes about Death

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Lucan, F. L.

29.

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

Craig Volk

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

Publilius Syrus

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Johnny Carson

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus