Motivational Quotes

Death

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Gide, Andre

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

11.

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

12.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

13.

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

Camus, Albert

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Pamela Ribon

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

24.

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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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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

28.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

29.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Craig Volk

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

Woody Allen

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Luther, Martin

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Marvell, Andrew

44.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

45.

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

46.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

47.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron