Motivational Quotes

Death

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel 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

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Eliot, George

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

Plato

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

14.

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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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

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

22.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

23.

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 report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Sophocles

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Cocteau, Jean

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