Motivational Quotes

Death

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Death

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Hoffer, Eric

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Camus, Albert

10.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

11.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

12.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

13.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

14.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

15.

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

Lucan, F. L.

16.

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

Eliot, George

17.

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

18.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

19.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

20.

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

Butler, Samuel

21.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

24.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

25.

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

Fromm, Erich

26.

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

Barker, Clive

27.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

29.

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

30.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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

32.

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

Woody Allen

33.

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

Fielding, Henry

34.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

35.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

36.

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

37.

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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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

39.

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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Epicurus

45.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

46.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

47.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny