Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

- Man, Paul De

Best Quotes about Death

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

11.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

12.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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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

29.

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

Euripides

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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 hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Frost, Robert

44.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Hook, Sydney

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bagnold, Enid

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