Motivational Quotes

Death

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Death

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Euripides

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

13.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

14.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

15.

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.

16.

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

Eliot, George

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

18.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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

20.

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

Auerbach, Red

21.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

23.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

24.

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

Allen, Woody

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

'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

27.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Publilius Syrus

32.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

33.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

34.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

35.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

36.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

40.

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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

42.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

46.

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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

48.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

49.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Hubbard, Kin