Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Death

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

A. Sachs

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Auden, W. H.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Lee, Nathaniel

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Chandler, Raymond

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

10.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

11.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

12.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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 someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Macdonald, George

31.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

32.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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 is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Heidegger, Martin