Motivational Quotes

Death

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about 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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

11.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

12.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

14.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Lucan, F. L.

17.

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

Havner, Vance

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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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Fromm, Erich

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Barker, Clive

25.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

26.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

28.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

Horace

32.

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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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Epicurus

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

40.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

43.

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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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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.