Motivational Quotes

Death

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

- Jonathan Swift

Best Quotes about Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hermes, Georg

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

A. Sachs

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Auden, W. H.

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

36.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Young, Edward

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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

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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

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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

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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

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns