Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

- Man, Paul De

Best Quotes about Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

10.

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

11.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Bayly, Joseph

13.

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

Montgomery, James

14.

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

15.

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

Beaumont, Francis

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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

19.

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

Bagnold, Enid

20.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Auden, W. H.

25.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

33.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

35.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

36.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

Duffecy, James

38.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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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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

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

42.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Hoffer, Eric

44.

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

Ken, Thomas

45.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.