Motivational Quotes

Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Death

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Charles II

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Horace

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

Beaumont, Francis

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

William Shakespeare

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gide, Andre

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

Mann, Thomas

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Euripides

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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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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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Addison, Joseph

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott