Motivational Quotes

Death

Only the young die good.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Death

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

Camus, Albert

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

Matt Frewer

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

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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 need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

10.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Forster, Edward M.

14.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

18.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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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 can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Eliot, George

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Macdonald, George

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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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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

William Shakespeare

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert