Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

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

W. Somerset Maugham

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Horace

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Dryden, John

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Forster, Edward M.

11.

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

Hoffer, Eric

12.

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

Craig Volk

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Woody Allen

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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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

26.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

31.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Young, Edward

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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

42.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph