Motivational Quotes

Death

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Craig Volk

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

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

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Matt Frewer

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Dryden, John

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Gide, Andre

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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 is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]