Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

- Man, Paul De

Best Quotes about Death

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Plato

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Farber, Dave

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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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 more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Craig Volk

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

Donne, John

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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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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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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Barker, Clive

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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Berra, Yogi

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!