Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Death

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Craig Volk

11.

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

Bronte, Emily

12.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

13.

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

Gide, Andre

14.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

18.

'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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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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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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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

22.

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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

24.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

25.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

26.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

27.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

28.

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

Macdonald, George

29.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

30.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

31.

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

32.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

40.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Lucan, F. L.

43.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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 does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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