Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Durrell, Lawrence

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Plato

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

Publilius Syrus

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Carson, Johnny

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.

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 is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Craig Volk

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Macdonald, George

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia