Motivational Quotes

Death

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Allen, Woody

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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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

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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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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.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Farber, Dave

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Woody Allen

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Eliot, George

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Forster, Edward M.

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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