Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Eliot, George

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

Foster, John W.

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Gray, Thomas

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Gide, Andre

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

A. Sachs

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

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

William Shakespeare

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Euripides

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Plato

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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