Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Death

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Bertolt Brecht

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hook, Sydney

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

William Shakespeare

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Buffett, Jimmy

10.

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

11.

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

Carson, Johnny

12.

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

Marvell, Andrew

13.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

15.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

17.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

18.

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

Euripides

19.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

20.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Woody Allen

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel 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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

29.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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

32.

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

Macdonald, George

33.

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Bayly, Joseph

35.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

42.

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

Woody Allen

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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.

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

William Shakespeare

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

Dryden, John

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