Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Marvell, Andrew

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

11.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Palmerston, Lord

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Charles II

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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 is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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 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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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

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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

32.

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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is the cure for all diseases.