Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

A. Sachs

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Barker, Clive

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Edith Sitwell

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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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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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

39.

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

Picabia, Francis

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Woody Allen

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bertolt Brecht

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth