Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Woody Allen

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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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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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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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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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

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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

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

Gide, Andre

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?