Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Allen, Woody

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Horace

11.

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

Horace

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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'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

17.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

18.

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

Horace

19.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

20.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Euripides

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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

30.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Forster, Edward M.

33.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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.

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

39.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

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

41.

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

Foster, John W.

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Addison, Joseph

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.