Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Marvell, Andrew

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bryant, William C.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Johnny Carson

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

John Scalzi

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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Belloc, Hilaire

24.

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

Matt Frewer

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

A. Sachs

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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada