Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Death

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Keats, John

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

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

Milton, John

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

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

William Shakespeare

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Allen, Woody

10.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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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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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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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

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Manilius, Marcus

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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

31.

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

Edith Sitwell

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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

33.

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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

35.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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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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

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.