Motivational Quotes

Death

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

- Montgomery, James

Best Quotes about Death

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

Barker, Clive

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

Woody Allen

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Durrell, Lawrence

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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.

10.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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.

Donne, John

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Mann, Thomas

26.

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

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

Bible

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

30.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Lucan, F. L.

32.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Craig Volk

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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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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

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