Motivational Quotes

Death

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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 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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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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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'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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

William Shakespeare

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Picabia, Francis

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Foster, John W.

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.