Motivational Quotes

Death

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

- Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Best Quotes about Death

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

Gide, Andre

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Palmerston, Lord

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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 dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Hook, Sydney

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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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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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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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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Thrale, Hester i

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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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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

39.

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

Euripides

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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

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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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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

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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

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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

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

Foster, John W.