Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Charles II

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

Manilius, Marcus

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

William Shakespeare

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Milton, John

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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

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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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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

34.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Woody Allen

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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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

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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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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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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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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich