Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Palmerston, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

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.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Matt Frewer

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

William Shakespeare

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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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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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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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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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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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Horace

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

Barker, Clive

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

Macdonald, George

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

Keats, John

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

Farber, Dave

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gide, Andre

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce