Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Death

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Allen, Woody

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Eliot, George

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Palmerston, Lord

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Camus, Albert

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Foster, John W.

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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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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Ann Radcliffe