Motivational Quotes

Death

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

- Bagnold, Enid

Best Quotes about Death

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

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Woody Allen

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

Milton, John

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

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

10.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

11.

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

12.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

16.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

18.

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

Bayly, Joseph

19.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

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

Craig Volk

21.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

25.

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

Craig Volk

26.

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

Horace

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

Plato

28.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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

30.

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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Luther, Martin

33.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Auerbach, Red

40.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

41.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

42.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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