Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Matt Frewer

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

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

10.

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

Publilius Syrus

11.

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

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

Fromm, Erich

14.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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.

16.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

17.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

18.

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

Woody Allen

20.

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

21.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Ann Radcliffe

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

24.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

27.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

A. Sachs

29.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

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

Havner, Vance

31.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

32.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

33.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

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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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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Eliot, George

41.

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

Craig Volk

42.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.