Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

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

Nepos, Cornelius

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Fromm, Erich

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Eliot, George

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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

Canetti, Elias

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Publilius Syrus

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Barker, Clive

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Woody Allen

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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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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.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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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