Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Death

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Dyer, Wayne

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Keats, John

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Allen, Woody

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

18.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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.

20.

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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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 not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Foster, John W.

27.

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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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

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Plato

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

Beaumont, Francis

33.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

38.

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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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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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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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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.

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

Montgomery, James

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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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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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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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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

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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

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