Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Donne, John

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

Bible

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Foster, John W.

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Macdonald, George

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Edith Sitwell

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, 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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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'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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

William Shakespeare

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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