Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

- Hermes, Georg

Best Quotes about Death

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

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

Charles II

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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.

Chandler, Raymond

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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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 man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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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

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.