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

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

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

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

George Burns

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Eliot, George

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Horace

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

Dyer, Wayne

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Ken, Thomas

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver