Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Publilius Syrus

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Woody Allen

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

10.

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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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

15.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

16.

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

Bright, Grant M.

17.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

18.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

19.

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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

22.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

24.

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

Fromm, Erich

25.

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

Berra, Yogi

26.

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Butler, Samuel

28.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

29.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

30.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

31.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

33.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

34.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

35.

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

Montgomery, James

36.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

38.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

40.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

44.

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

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Epicurus

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich