Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Marvell, Andrew

Best Quotes about Death

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heidegger, Martin

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Matt Frewer

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Butler, Samuel

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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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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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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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

Foster, John W.

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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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 world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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

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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

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis