Motivational Quotes

Death

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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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'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Woody Allen

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

Woody Allen

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Farber, Dave

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Johnny Carson

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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

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Barker, Clive

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

Auden, W. H.

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Ken, Thomas

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Palmerston, Lord

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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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

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.