Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Death

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Gide, Andre

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Forster, Edward M.

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.