Motivational Quotes

Death

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bacon, Francis

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Lowell, James Russell

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

12.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

A. Sachs

18.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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

25.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

26.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

27.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

28.

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

29.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Bible

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Marvell, Andrew

33.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

40.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

41.

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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

45.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Gray, Thomas

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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

49.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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