Motivational Quotes

Death

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Death

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

Aaron McGruder

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

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

William Shakespeare

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Picabia, Francis

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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

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Carson, Johnny

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Duffecy, James

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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Allen, Woody

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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